Karen Dynan, Harvard University, Chair

Karen Dynan is a Professor of the Practice in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. She served as Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury from 2014 to 2017, leading analysis of economic conditions and development of policies to address the nation’s economic challenges. From 2009 to 2013, Dynan was Vice President and Co-director of the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. Before that, she was on the staff of the Federal Reserve Board for 17 years, playing a leadership role in a number of areas, including macroeconomic forecasting, household finances, and the Fed’s response to the financial crisis. Dynan also served as a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2003 to 2004 and as a visiting assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University in 1998. Dynan teaches in the Harvard Economics Department and at the Harvard Kennedy School; she is also currently a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Dynan’s research focuses on fiscal and other types of macroeconomic policy, consumer behavior, and household finances. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and her A.B. from Brown University.

Pat Bajari, Keystone Strategy

Pat Bajari is Chief Economist and Managing Director for Core AI at Keystone Strategy, where he advises global clients on deploying AI tools in business applications. Prior to Keystone, he was a tech vice president at Amazon for 13 years, serving as their Chief Economist and later leader of their Core AI team. Bajari has been a faculty member in the economics departments of Harvard, Stanford, Duke, and Minnesota. His work has appeared in such journals as Econometrica, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Review of Economics and Statistics. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the National Association of Business Economists. He has a Ph.D. in Economic from the University of Minnesota. 

William Beach, Economic Policy Innovation Center

William (Bill) Beach is currently the Senior Fellow in Economics at the Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC) in Washington, D.C., and the Coffin Fellow at the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation. From 2019 to 2023, he served as the 15th Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Beach is also the current co-chair of the Friends of BLS network. Throughout his career, Beach has worked in economic research and policy positions that have made intensive use of economic data and statistics. His previous roles include chief economist of the Senate Budget Committee, vice president of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and director of the Center for Data Analysis at the Heritage Foundation. Beach holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Buckingham University in the United Kingdom.

Jason Faberman, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Jason Faberman is a senior economist and economic advisor in the Research, Policy, and Public Engagement Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. His research focuses broadly on the labor market, with a particular focus on interactions between workers and employers. His work has examined worker/employer interactions at all levels: within firms, across urban areas, and across the economy as a whole. Faberman is a Research Fellow with the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and currently serves as a member of the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC). Before joining the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago in 2011, he was a senior economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia from 2007 to 2011, and a research economist with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2003 to 2007. During his time at the BLS, he worked extensively on developing and enhancing the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) and the Business Employment Dynamics (BED) data. He is currently part of a team that developed and maintains the Job Search Supplement of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE), an extensive survey on individuals’ job search and job finding outcomes. Faberman’s research has been published in Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, and Journal of Economic Perspectives, among other journals.

Bradley Hardy, Georgetown University

Bradley Hardy is an Associate Professor in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. He is a nonresident senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, a research fellow with the Institute for Economic Equity at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and a research affiliate of both the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty and the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research. He has also been a visiting scholar at the U.S. Census Bureau and served as a panel member for a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine Panel on Evaluation and Improvements to the Supplemental Poverty Measure and a National Academy of Social Insurance Study Panel on Economic Security. His research examines trends and sources of income volatility and intergenerational mobility within the United States, with a focus on socio-economically disadvantaged families, neighborhoods, and regions.

Joanne Hsu, University of Michigan

Joanne Hsu is the Director of the University of Michigan's monthly Surveys of Consumers and a Research Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Previously she was principal economist in the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, where she worked on the Survey of Consumer Finances and the staff's macroeconomic forecast. Hsu's research has been published in such journals as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Human Resources, the Review of Financial Studies, Labour Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, and Public Opinion Quarterly. She has also been a visiting professor in the Department of Economics at Howard University. Hsu earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan.

Jed Kolko

Jed Kolko served as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs from 2022 to 2024. In that role he oversaw the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Across his career, Kolko has helped pioneer innovative use of nontraditional "big data" in economic analyses, including in his roles as chief economist for Indeed (2016-22) and for Trulia (2011-16). Before joining Trulia, he was the associate director of research at the Public Policy Institute of California (2006-11) and before that vice president and research director at Forrester Research. His research has been published in such journals as Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Economic Geography, and Journal of Regional Science. He also writes on economic data and statistics for a popular audience. Kolko holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.

Helen G. Levy, University of Michigan

Helen G. Levy is Associate Director of the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, at the University of Michigan, and a Research Professor in the University's Institute for Social Research, its Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and a Research Associate with NBER. She is Associate Director of the Health and Retirement Study, a longitudinal panel study that surveys a representative sample to address important questions about the challenges and opportunities of aging. She has served as Senior Economist on the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and as a member of the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee.

Mark Mazur

Mark Mazur, after spending four years on the faculty at Carnegie-Mellon University, came to Washington, DC to begin an extended period of public service. Mark started his government career as an economist at the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT). After four years at JCT, he became a senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisers and then a senior director at the National Economic Council. He then served as Director of Research, Analysis, and Statistics for the IRS, went on to become the Treasury Department's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis, and was later confirmed as Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy. In addition to his federal service, Mark served as director of the Tax Policy Center, a joint project of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution.

Daniel E. Sichel, Wellesley College

Daniel E. Sichel, Professor of Economics at Wellesley College and an NBER Research Associate, is known for his contributions to the measurement of technological change, innovation, and intangible capital, and their subsequent influences on productivity and economic growth. Dan spent a number of years in various positions with the Federal Reserve Board, culminating in his serving as Senior Associate Director of the FRB's Division of Research and Statistics. From 1995-96, Dan was the Treasury Department's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Macroeconomics. He is currently Chair of the NSF Committee on National Statistics' Panel on "Improving the Cost-of-Living Indexes and Consumer Inflation Statistics in the Digital Age," and Chair of the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Advisory Committee.