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Katharine G. Abraham, Ph.D.
- Professor of Economics and Survey Methodology and Director of the Maryland Center for Economics and Policy, University of Maryland
Alan J. Auerbach, Ph.D.
- Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law, University of California, Berkeley
David Autor, Ph.D.
- Ford Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Olivier Blanchard, Ph.D.
- C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Markus K. Brunnermeier, Ph.D.
- Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Economics, Princeton University
Mary C. Daly, Ph.D.
- Senior Vice President and Associate Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Steven J. Davis, Ph.D.
- William H. Abbott Professor of International Business and Economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
- Consultant, International Paper
Robert E. Hall, Ph.D.
- Robert and Carole McNeil Hoover Senior Fellow and Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Jan Hatzius, Ph.D.
- Chief Economist, Goldman Sachs
Donald L. Kohn, Ph.D.
- Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
- Speaker, Washington Speakers Bureau
Nellie Liang, Ph.D.
- Director of the Office of Financial Stability Policy and Research, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
N. Gregory Mankiw, Ph.D.
- Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics, Harvard University
- Author, Cengage Learning
- Author, Macmillan Publishers
Emi Nakamura, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Business and Economics, Columbia University
Jonathan A. Parker, Ph.D.
- Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Finance, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Adam S. Posen, Ph.D.
- President, Peterson Institute for International Economics
James M. Poterba, Ph.D.
- Mitsui Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- President and Chief Executive Officer, National Bureau of Economic Research
- Independent Trustee, College Retirement Equity Fund (CREF) and TIAA-CREF Mutual Funds
Valerie A. Ramey, Ph.D.
- Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego
Brian Sack, Ph.D.
- Director of Global Economics, D. E. Shaw Group
Robert Shimer, Ph.D.
- Alvin H. Baum Professor in Economics and the College, University of Chicago
Justin Wolfers, Ph.D.
- Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan
- Nonresident Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Mark Zandi, Ph.D.
- Chief Economist, Moody’s Analytics
- Member of the Board of Directors, Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation