Philippe Aghion is Centennial Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. His main research interests include political economy, economic growth, technological change, institutions, regulation, and entrepreneurship.

Manuel Arellano is Professor of Econometrics at CEMFI in Madrid. His main research interests include econometrics and empirical microeconomics.

David Autor is Ford Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His current fields of specialization include labor market impacts of technological change and globalization, human capital and earnings inequality, disability insurance and labor supply, and temporary help and other intermediated work arrangements.His main research interests include econometrics and empirical microeconomics.

Ernst Baltensperger is Professor emeritus at the University of Bern. His main research interests include monetary economics, banking, finance, and economic policy.

Abhijit Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2003 he co-founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) with Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan, and he remains one of the Lab’s Directors. Banerjee is a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society. He is a winner of the Infosys Prize and co-recipient of the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his groundbreaking work in development economics research.

Marianne Bertrand is the Chris P. Dialynas Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Her research covers the fields of labor economics, corporate finance, and development economics. In 2012, she received the Society of Labor Economists’ Rosen Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Labor Economics.

Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). In her research, she seeks to understand the eco- nomic lives of the poor, with the aim to help design and evaluate social policies. She has worked on health, education, financial inclusion, environment, and governance. Duflo has received numerous academic honors and prizes including 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (with co-Laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer).

Raquel Fernández is Professor of Economics at New York University. Her research focuses on sovereign debt, public economics, economics of gender, political economy, economics and culture, and income inequality.

Oliver Hart is the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard University. His research interests include contract theory, the theory of the firm, corporate finance, and law and economics. His research centers on the roles that ownership structure and contractual arrangements play in the governance and boundaries of corporations. In 2016, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.

James Heckman is Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. His research interests include microeconomics and econometrics, e.g. economic policy evaluation, skill formation, and selection bias. In 2000, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.

Chang-Tai Hsieh is Phyllis and Irwin Winkelried Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His main research areas include economic development, growth in Asia and Latin America and applied economics.

Ulrike Malmendier is the Edward J. and Mollie Arnold Professor of Finance at the Haas School of Business and Professor of Economics at the University of California. Her research interests are corporate finance, behavioral economics/behavioral finance, economics of organizations, contract theory, law and economics, law and finance. In 2013, Malmendier was awarded the prestigious Fisher Black Prize from the American Finance Association, given biennially to the top financial scholar under the age of 40. She has been a member of the German Council of Economic Experts since September 2022.

Joel Mokyr is Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History at Northwestern University. His research focuses on the economic history of Europe, specializing in the period 1750–1914. His current research is concerned with the understanding of the economic and intellectual roots of technological progress and the growth of useful knowledge in European societies, as well as the impact that industrialization and economic progress have had on economic welfare. Prof. Mokyr is co-editor of a book series, the Princeton University Press Economic History of the Western World. He was the 2006 winner of the biennial Heineken Award for History offered by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and the winner of the 2015 Balzan International Prize for economic history. He was elected a distinguished member of the American Economic Association. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, the Accademia dei Lincei and Royal Dutch Academy. His book A Culture of Growth – Origins of the Modern Economy, was published in 2016. The Economist praised Mokyr’s book, saying, “It is refreshing that an economist is taking seriously the idea that ideas and culture make a difference to economic growth.” His most recent book is Two Paths to the Twentieth Century: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000, with Avner Greif and Guido Tabellini, forthcoming with Princeton University Press.

Yingyi Qian is Dean and Professor at the School of Economics and Management at the Tsinghua University (Beijing). His main research areas include comparative economics, institutional economics, economics of transition, and the Chinese economy.

Imran Rasul is Professor of Economics at University College London, co-director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Research Programme Director in the Firms portfolio, at the International Growth Centre. He is currently managing editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association, and he been a co-editor and director of the Review of Economic Studies (2009-17).

Thomas Sargent is William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University. His research interests include macroeconomics, monetary economics, and time series econometrics. In 2013, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.

Klaus Schmidt is Professor of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. His research interest include contract theory, behavioral and experimental economics, game theory, industrial organization, labor and organization economics, competition policy, privatization, auctions and procurement, venture capital, and political economy.

Robert Shiller is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. His research interests include behavioral finance, including implications for practice and policy-making, and housing markets. In 2013, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.

Kjetil Storesletten is Professor of Economics at the University of Oslo. His research focuses on heterogeneity in macroeconomics and development, in particular the impact of risk on economic allocations and the economic transformation of China. In 2013, he was awarded the Sun Yefang prize by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (with Song and Zilibotti).

Guido Tabellini is Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Milan. His main research interests include political economy, corporate finance, and industrial organization.

Harald Uhlig is Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. His recent research includes applied quantitative theory and applied dynamic, stochastic general equilibrium theory; the intersection of macroeconomics and financial economics; and Bayesian time series analysis and macroeconomic applications.

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya is Professor of Economics at Paris School of Economics. Her research interests includ political economics, economic history and development economics. She is recipient of the Birgit Grodal Award, 2018 (awarded bi-annually by EEA to a European-based female economist for a significant contribution to the Economics profession), and the Montias Prize for the best paper published in the Journal of Comparative Economics in two years 2014-2015.