Our Team

We are united in our passion to understand how to improve economic opportunities for all Americans.

Leadership
Raj Chetty
Director, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
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John Friedman
Co-Director, Professor of Economics, Brown University
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Nathaniel Hendren
Co-Director, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
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Sarah Oppenheimer
Policy Research Director
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Michael Stepner
Research Principal, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Toronto
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Winnie van Dijk
Research Principal, Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University
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David Williams
Policy Outreach Director
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Research & Policy Staff
Matt Bell
Project Manager
Zachary Bleemer
Postdoctoral Fellow
Abby Hiller
Research Translation Manager
Fiona Kastel
Research and Special Projects Manager
Sarah LaBauve
Pre-Doc Program Manager
Matthew Staiger
Research Scientist
Administrative Staff
Westley Cineus
Assistant Director of Research Administration
Ilise Hamilton
Executive Assistant to John Friedman
Caitlin Kupsc
Finance Associate
Trina Ott
Operations Coordinator
Danny Pantry
Executive Assistant to Raj Chetty
Liz Thach
Executive Assistant to Nathaniel Hendren
Opportunity Insights Predoctoral Fellows
Camille Baker
Harvey Barnhard
Dhruv Gaur
Armelle Grondin
Sebastian Puerta
Tom Rutter
Ana Sanchez Chico
Clare Suter
Nicolaj Thor
Opportunity Insights Network Predoctoral Fellows
Isabel Almazan
Harvard University
Lucía Lamas
NBER
Florian Mudekereza
New York University
Raghav Saraogi
Stanford University
Blake Woods
Chicago Booth
Graduate Student Affiliates
Fiona Chen
Sahil Chinoy
Robert Fluegge
Jamie Gracie
Matthew Jacob
Drew Johnston
Martin Koenen
Namrata Narain
Kadeem Noray
Chika Okafor
Suproteem Sarkar
Emanuel Schertz
Claire Shi
Ben Sprung-Keyser
James Stratton
Jennifer Walsh
Alice Wu
Ruby Zhang
Research Collaborators
Trent Alexander
Associate Director of ICSPR, University of Michigan
Isaiah Andrews
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Peter Bergman
Assistant Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University
Kyle Coombs
Professor of Economics, Columbia University
David Cutler
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Stefanie DeLuca
James Coleman Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, Johns Hopkins University
David Deming
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Rebecca Diamond
Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Will Dobbie
Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Arindrajit Dube
Professor of Economics, UMass Amherst
Katie Genadek
Economist, United States Census Bureau
Claudia Goldin
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
David Grusky
Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
Matthew Jackson
Professor of Economics. Stanford University
Calvin Jahnke
Research Associate, Harvard Business School
Xavier Jaravel
Assistant Professor of Economics, London School of Economics
Maggie R. Jones
Economist, United States Census Bureau
Lawrence Katz
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Ray Kleunder
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Patrick Kline
Associate Professor of Economics, UC-Berkeley
Theresa Kuchler
Associate Professor of Finance, New York University
Robert Manduca
PhD Candidate in Sociology, Harvard University
Suresh Naidu
Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics, Columbia University
Christopher J. Palmer
Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management
Neviana Petkova
Financial Economist, Office of Tax Analysis
Sonya R. Porter
Economist, United States Census Bureau
Emmanuel Saez
Professor of Economics, UC-Berkeley
Johannes Stroebel
Professor of Finance, New York University
Laura Tach
Professor of Sociology. Cornell University
Nicholas Turner
Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Board
John van Reenen
Professor of Applied Economics, MIT
Danny Yagan
Assistant Professor of Economics, UC-Berkeley
Crystal Yang
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Owen Zidar
Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Eric Zwick
Associate Professor of Finance, Chicago Booth
Alumni
With Initial Position After Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Sarah Abraham
Ph.D Program in Economics, MIT
Trevor Bakker
Ph.D Program in Economics, Stanford University
Alex Bell
Ph.D Program in Economics, Harvard University
Augustin Bergeron
Ph.D Program in Political Economy and Government, Harvard University
Kaveh Danesh
Ph.D Program in Economics, UC-Berkeley
Caroline Dockes
MPhil in Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence, University of Cambridge
Mike Droste
Ph.D Program in Economics, Harvard University
Niklas Flamang
Ph.D Program in Economics, UC-Berkeley
Robert Fluegge
Ph.D Candidate in Economics, Harvard University
Jamie Fogel
Ph.D Program in Economics, University of Michigan
Benny Goldman
Ph.D Program in Economics, Harvard University
Federico Gonzalez
Ph.D Program in Economics, Harvard University
Charlotte Grace
M.Phil in Economics, University of Oxford
Jamie Gracie
Ph.D Program in Economics, Harvard University
Heather Sarsons
Ph.D Program in Economics, Harvard University
Nikolaus Hildebrand
Ph.D Program in Economics, MIT
Jack Hoyle
MSc in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning, University College London
Matthew Jacob
Ph.D Program in Public Policy, Harvard University
Tyler Jacobson
Ph.D Program in Economics, Chicago Booth
Alex Jenni
Ph.D Program in Economics, University of Zurich
Jesse Silbert
Ph.D Program in Economics, Princeton University
Margaret Kallus
Ph.D Program in Economics, UC-Berkeley
Sam Karlin
JD Program, Harvard Law School
Martin Koenen
Ph.D Program in Political Economy & Government, Harvard Kennedy School
Frina Lin
Ph.D Program in Public Policy, Harvard University
Shelby Lin
M.Phil in Management Science, University of Cambridge
Jeremy Majerovitz
Ph.D Program in Economics, MIT
Kai Matheson
Carl McPherson
Ph.D Program in Economics, UC-Berkeley
Sarah Merchant
Ph.D. Sociology, UC-Berkeley
Christian Mott
Ph.D Program in Psychology, Columbia University
Kate Musen
Ph.D Program in Economics, Columbia University
Jimmy Narang
Ph.D Program in Economics, UC-Berkeley
Alex Olssen
Ph.D Program in Economics, MIT
Donato Onorato
Ph.D Program in Economics, Columbia University
Max Pienkny
Ph.D Program in Economics, Northwestern University
Daniel Reuter
Jordan Richmond
Ph.D Program in Economics, Princeton University
Nina Roussille
Ph.D Program in Economics, UC-Berkeley
Peter Ruhm
Remote Monitoring Expansion Coordinator, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
Emanuel Schertz
Ph.D Program in Economics, Harvard University
Benjamin Scuderi
Ph.D Program in Economics, UC-Berkeley
Priyanka Shende
Ph.D Program in Economics, UC-Berkeley
Kamelia Stavreva
Ph.D Program in Economics, Columbia University
Evan Storms
Ph.D Program in Economics, Stanford University
James Stratton
Ph.D Program in Economics, Harvard University
Wilbur Townsend
Ph.D Program in Business Economics, Harvard Business School
Amanda Wahlers
Ph.D Program in Economics, Stanford University
Chase Williamson
Ph.D Program in Economics, Northwestern University
Joe Winkelmann
Ph.D in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Ruby Zhang
Ph.D Program in Economics, Harvard University
Advisory Board
Geoff Canada
President of Harlem Children’s Zone and Promise Academy Boards
Luis Cortés
Reverend; Founder, President, and CEO of Esperanza
Shaun Donovan
Harvard University, Department of Urban Planning and Design; Former Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget
Linda Gibbs
Principal, Bloomberg Associates
Edward Glaeser
Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University
David Leonhardt
Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times
David Plouffe
Head of Policy & Advocacy, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Daniel Porterfield
President and CEO of the Aspen Institute
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