Our Team

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

Leadership
Raj Chetty
Director
Bio
John Friedman
Co-Director
Bio
Nathaniel Hendren
Co-Director
Bio
Kristen Watkins
Chief Operating Officer
Bio
David Williams
Policy Director
Bio
Our Team
Matt Bell
Policy
Tina Chelidze
Policy
David Deming
Research Principal
Sebi Devlin-Foltz
Policy
Caroline Dockes
Research
Shannon Felton Spence
Director of Communications
Claudia Goldin
Research Principal
Federico Gonzalez
Research
Rayshauna Gray
Policy Administrative Coordinator
Abigail Hiller
Chief of Staff
Jack Hoyle
Research
Matthew Jacob
Research
Tyler Jacobson
Research
Margaret Kallus
Research
Lawrence Katz
Research Principal
Laura Kincaide
Research
Maddie Marino
Executive Assistant to Raj Chetty
Kai Matheson
Research
Laura Moore
Deputy Policy Director
Kate Musen
Research
Donato Onorato
Research
Trina Ott
Faculty Assistant
Max Pienkny
Research
Jeremiah Prince
Policy
Daniel Reuter
Research
Peter Ruhm
Research
Emanuel Schertz
Research
Kamelia Stavreva
Research
James Stratton
Research
Liz Thach
Executive Assistant to Nathaniel Hendren, Claudia Goldin, and Lawrence Katz
Nicolaj Thor
Research
Winnie van Dijk
Research Principal
Amanda Wahlers
Research
Alanna Williams
Policy
Chase Williamson
Research
Ruby Zhang
Research
Collaborators
Peter Bergman
Assistant Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University
David Cutler
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Stefanie DeLuca
James Coleman Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, Johns Hopkins University
David Grusky
Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
Maximilian Hell
PhD Candidate in Sociology, Stanford University
Xavier Jaravel
Assistant Professor of Economics, London School of Economics
Maggie R. Jones
United States Census Bureau
Patrick Kline
Associate Professor of Economics, UC-Berkeley
Robert Manduca
PhD Candidate in Sociology, Harvard 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
United States Census Bureau
Emmanuel Saez
Professor of Economics, UC-Berkeley
Ben Sprung-Keyser
Harvard University
Nicholas Turner
Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Board
John van Reenen
Professor of Applied Economics, MIT
Danny Yagan
Assistant Professor of Economics, UC-Berkeley
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
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
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
Alex Jenni
Ph.D Program in Economics, University of Zurich
Jesse Silbert
Ph.D Program in Economics, Princeton University
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
Carl McPherson
Ph.D Program in Economics, UC-Berkeley
Sarah Merchant
Jimmy Narang
Ph.D Program in Economics, UC-Berkeley
Alex Olssen
Ph.D Program in Economics, MIT
Jordan Richmond
Ph.D Program in Economics, Princeton University
Nina Roussille
Ph.D Program in Economics, UC-Berkeley
Benjamin Scuderi
Ph.D Program in Economics, UC-Berkeley
Priyanka Shende
Ph.D Program in Economics, UC-Berkeley
Michael Stepner
Ph.D Program in Economics, MIT
Evan Storms
Ph.D Program in Economics, Stanford University
Wilbur Townsend
Ph.D Program in Business Economics, Harvard Business School
Joe Winkelmann
Ph.D in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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
Claudine Gay
Dean of Social Science for Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University; Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies
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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