COMBATING INEQUALITY: RETHINKING POLICIES TO REDUCE INEQUALITY IN ADVANCED ECONOMIES

Peterson Institute for International Economics, Bergsten Conference Center Thursday, October 17: 8:30am–6:15pm Friday, October 18: 8:00am–5:15pm

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Conference Organizers OLIVIER BLANCHARD joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics as the first C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow in October 2015. From 2008 to 2015, he was the economic counselor and director of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund. He has taught at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and remains the Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics emeritus at MIT.

DANI RODRIK is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He was previously the Albert O. Hirschman Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2013–15). Rodrik is currently president-elect of the International Economic Association.

Conference Participants DARON ACEMOGLU is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (United States), the Science Academy (Turkey), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association, and the Society of Labor Economists.

PHILIPPE AGHION is visiting professor in the department of economics at Harvard University, as well as a professor at the College de France and the London School of Economics. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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DANIELLE ALLEN, James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, is a political theorist who has published broadly in democratic theory, political sociology, and the history of political thought. She is a former chair of the Mellon Foundation Board, past chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

BEN ANSELL is professor of comparative democratic institutions in the department of politics and international relations and professorial fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. Before joining Oxford and Nuffield College, he was an associate professor of political science at the University of Minnesota.

DAVID AUTOR is a professor and associate department head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics. He is also a faculty research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and editor in chief of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

SHERI BERMAN is professor of political science at Barnard College, Columbia University. She currently serves on the boards of the Journal of Democracy, Dissent, and Political Science Quarterly.

MARIANNE BERTRAND is the Chris P. Dialynas Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She is a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and the Institute for the Study of Labor.

JOSH BIVENS is director of research at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Prior to his current position, Bivens was a research economist at EPI. Before coming to EPI, he was assistant professor of economics at Roosevelt University and provided consulting services to Oxfam America.

SANDRA E. BLACK is professor of economics and international and public affairs at Columbia University. She has worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and as an assistant, associate, and professor in the department of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles; and held the Audre and Bernard Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs in the department of economics at the University of Texas at Austin.

HEATHER BOUSHEY is the president, CEO, and cofounder of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. She previously served as chief economist for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential transition team and as an economist for the Center for American Progress, the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress, the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and the Economic Policy Institute.

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LUCAS CHANCEL is codirector of the World Inequality Lab and of the World Inequality Database (WID) at the Paris School of Economics, which he joined in 2015. He lectures at Sciences Po in the Master of Public Policy program on the economics of inequality and sustainable development. He is also senior research fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, a position he has held since 2011.

LAURA D’ANDREA TYSON is the faculty director of the Berkeley Haas Institute for Business and Social Impact, which she launched in 2013. She also chairs the Board of Trustees at UC Berkeley’s Blum Center for Developing Economies, which aims to develop solutions to global poverty.

WILLIAM A. (“SANDY”) DARITY JR. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. He has served as chair of the department of African and African American studies and was the founding director of the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality at Duke.

DAVID DEMING is professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). In July 2019, he became the faculty director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at HKS. He currently serves as a coeditor of the American Economic Journal and is principal investigator (along with Raj Chetty and John Friedman) at the Collegiate Leaders in Increasing MoBility (CLIMB) Initiative, an organization that seeks to study and improve the role of higher education in social mobility.

PETER A. DIAMOND is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1966. He also taught at the University of California, Berkeley as an assistant professor during 1963–65 and acting assistant professor during 1965–66. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science.

CHRISTIAN DUSTMANN is professor of economics at University College London (UCL). He is also the founding director of the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration. He is president of the European Society of Labour Economists (EALE) and was president of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE) in 2008.

DAVID T. ELLWOOD, the Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy, served as dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, from July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2015. He began his appointment as director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy on July 1, 2016. He also serves as the chair of the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty.

RICHARD B. FREEMAN holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. He is faculty codirector of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and is senior research fellow in labour markets at the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance. He directs the Science Engineering Workforce Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research and is codirector of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities.

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CAROLINE FREUND is global director of trade, investment and competitiveness at the World Bank Group. Previously she was senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. She has also worked as chief economist for the Middle East and North Africa at the World Bank after working for nearly a decade in the international trade unit of the research department. @CarolineFreund

JASON FURMAN is Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Prior to joining the Institute, he served for eight years as a top economic adviser to President Obama, including as the 28th chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from August 2013 to January 2017, acting as both Obama’s chief economist and a member of the cabinet. @jasonfurman

HILARY HOYNES is a professor of public policy and economics and holds the Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also codirects the Berkeley Opportunity Lab. She is a member of the American Academy of Art and Sciences, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and is a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists.

LAWRENCE F. KATZ is the Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Katz has been editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics since 1991 and served as the chief economist of the US Department of Labor for 1993 and 1994.

WOJCIECH KOPCZUK is a professor at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and the department of economics at Columbia University, where he has taught since 2003. Previously he was assistant professor of economics at the University of British Columbia during 2001–03. He has also been research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Public Economics Program since 2008 and research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research since 2009.

N. GREGORY MANKIW is the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Mankiw has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, an adviser to the Congressional Budget Office and the Federal Reserve Banks of Boston and New York, and a member of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) test development committee for the advanced placement exam in economics. From 2003 to 2005 he served as chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers.

NOLAN MCCARTY is the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs and chair of the department of politics at Princeton University. He was formerly the associate dean at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

EDUARDO PORTER is an economics reporter for the business section of the New York Times, where he was the economic scene columnist from 2012 to 2018. In 2000, Porter went to work at the Wall Street Journal in Los Angeles to cover the growing Hispanic population. He joined the New York Times in 2004 to cover economics.

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ADAM S. POSEN has been president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics since January 2013. In 2009–2012, Posen served a three-year term as an external voting member of the Bank of England’s rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). He is the author or editor of eight books on macroeconomic policy issues.

CATHERINE RAMPELL is an opinion columnist at the Washington Post. She frequently covers economics, public policy, politics, and culture, with a special emphasis on data-driven journalism. She is also a political and economic commentator for CNN and an occasional special correspondent for the PBS Newshour.

JESSE ROTHSTEIN is professor of public policy and economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he joined the faculty in 2009. He spent the 2009–10 academic year in public service, first as senior economist at the US Council of Economic Advisers and then as chief economist at the US Department of Labor. Earlier, he was assistant professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University.

EMMANUEL SAEZ is the director of the Center for Equitable Growth at the University of California, Berkeley. He was assistant professor of economics at Harvard University from 1999 to 2002 before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley in 2002. He is editor of the Journal of Public Economics and codirector of the Public Policy Program at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).

T.M. SCANLON is Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity at Harvard University. He taught at Princeton University from 1966 before coming to Harvard in 1984.

THARMAN SHANMUGARATNAM is senior minister in the Singapore cabinet. He is also coordinating minister for social policies and advises the prime minister of Singapore on economic policies. He is, concurrently, chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Singapore’s central bank and financial regulator.

HEIDI SHIERHOLZ is senior economist and director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). She was an economist at EPI from 2007 to 2014, and she rejoined EPI in 2017. From 2014 to 2017, she served as chief economist at the Department of Labor under the Obama administration. Prior to joining EPI in 2007, Shierholz was assistant professor of economics at the University of Toronto.

GENE SPERLING is the founder of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. He was director of the National Economic Council under both President Obama (2011–14) and President Clinton (1997–2001). He also has served as deputy director of the National Economic Council (1993–96), counselor to the secretary of Treasury, and member of the Auto Task Force (2009–10).

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STEFANIE STANTCHEVA is professor of economics at Harvard University. Since May 2018, she has been a member of the French Council of Economic Advisors. She is currently associate editor at the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Political Economy, and a foreign editor at the Review of Economic Studies.

LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS is president emeritus of Harvard University. During the past two decades he has served in a series of senior policy positions, including vice president of development economics and chief economist of the World Bank, undersecretary of the Treasury for international affairs, director of the National Economic Council for the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011, and secretary of the Treasury of the United States from 1999 to 2001.

PHILIPPE VAN PARIJS is professor at the Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), where he has directed the Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics since its creation in 1991. He was a visiting professor at Harvard University’s Department of Philosophy from 2004 to 2011 and has been a visiting professor at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven since 2006, and a senior research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, since 2011.

DAVID WESSEL is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy. He joined Brookings in December 2013 after 30 years on the staff of the Wall Street Journal where, most recently, he was economics editor and wrote the weekly Capital column. He is a contributing correspondent to the Wall Street Journal and appears frequently on NPR’s Morning Edition.

MIN ZHU is chairman of the National Institute of Financial Research at Tsinghua University. He is also a board trustee member of the World Economic Forum and a board director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Zhu was a deputy managing director at the International Monetary Fund from July 2011 to July 2016. Before that, Zhu was a deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBC). Prior to that position, he served as a group executive vice president of the PBC.

GABRIEL ZUCMAN has been assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley since 2015. He has also been codirector of the World Inequality Database since 2015. He was visiting assistant professor at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) during 2017–18.

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