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Andrew Leigh

Andrew Leigh

PhD in Public Policy, 2004.
Member of Parliament, Australia.
Shadow Assistant Treasurer and Shadow Minister for Competition.


Professor of Economics, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 2004-2010.

Innovation + Equality, by Joshua Fans and Andrew LeighAndrew Leigh's latest book (with Joshua Gans), Innovation + Equality, has been published by MIT Press (2019)

Randomistas, by Andrew LeighAuthorRandomistas, by Andrew Leigh of  Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Are Changing Our World, Yale University Press (2018).

Published in Australia by La Trobe University Press, Black Inc. Publishing (2018) View ►  

Author of The Luck of Politics, Black Inc. Publishing (2015).

Author of The Economics of Just About Everything, Allen & Unwin (2014).

Author of  Battlers and Billionaires: The Story of Inequality in Australia, Black Inc. Publishing (2013).

Andrew Leigh's first book, Disconnected, has been published by the University of New South Wales Press (2010).

Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Early Career Award, 2006.   

 Battlers and Billionaires, by Andrew Leigh   Battlers and Billionaires, by Andrew Leigh Disconnected, by Andrew Leigh

Jennifer S. Lerner

Jennifer S. Lerner

Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor in Public Management
Co-founder, Harvard Decision Science Laboratory


Research interests: A psychologist who draws on insights from psychology, economics, and neuroscience in order to elucidate human judgment and decision making. Predicting effects of specific emotions on specific judgment and choice outcomes. Expanding the evidentiary base for designing public policies that maximize human wellbeing.

Jeremy R. Levine

Jeremy R. Levine

PhD in Sociology, 2016.
Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies and Sociology, University of Michigan.
Christy Ley

Christy Ley

PhD in Sociology, 2018.
Senior Social Science Analyst, U.S. Government Accountability Office.
Brian Libgober

Brian Libgober

PhD in Political Science, 2018.
Assistant Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego.


Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer in Political Science, Yale University, 2018-2020.

Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration, Harvard University, 2016-2018.

Jeffrey B. Liebman

Jeffrey B. Liebman

Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy
Director, Taubman Center for State and Local Government


Research interests: Economist. Public sector economics and social policy. Tax and budget policy, social insurance, poverty, and income inequality.

Elizabeth  Linos

Elizabeth Linos

PhD in Public Policy, 2016.
Assistant Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley.
Co-director, The People Lab


VP and Head of Research and Evaluation, Behavioral Insights Team – North America, 2016-2017.

Elizabeth Linos is a behavioral scientist and public management scholar. She is faculty co-director of The People Lab at UC Berkeley, which aims to transform the public sector by producing cutting-edge research on the people in government and the communities they serve.

Katerina Linos

Katerina Linos

JD'06 and PhD in Political Science, 2007.
Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law.
Co-Director, Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law.


Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, 2006-2009.

Andrew Carnegie Fellow, 2017. 
Katerina Linos has been awarded a Carnegie fellowship to study the European refugee crisis.

Katerina Linos led a team of UC Berkeley and UC Davis staff and students to create the interactive data project, Digital Refugee (digitalrefuge.berkeley.edu). Digital RefugeeThe team translated, coded, mapped and charted over 6,000 interviews with refugees, and over 10,000 facebook posts from Arabic and Farsi refugee sites, to contrast the official narrative of the European refugee crisis, with the refugee crisis seen from the perspective of displaced persons themselves. 

The Democratic Foundations of Policy DiffusionKaterina Linos's first book, The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion examines how health, family, and employment laws spread across countries. Oxford University Press, 2013.

  • Winner of the 2014 APSA Giovanni Sartori Prize for best book on qualitative methods.
     
  • Winner of the 2014 ISA Chadwick Alger Prize for best book on international organization and multilateralism.
     
  • Winner of the 2014 Peter Katzenstein Prize  for outstanding first book in international relations or comparative politics.
     
  • Selected among the Best Books of 2013 on Western Europe by Foreign Affairs.

Awarded Larry Neal Prize for Excellence in EU Scholarship 2011.

Awarded Harvard University Senator Charles M Sumner Prize for the best dissertation “from the legal, political, historical, economic, social, or ethnic approach, dealing with any means or measures tending toward the prevention of war and the establishment of universal peace," 2007.

Heidi Liu

Heidi Liu

PhD in Public Policy, 2020.
JD, Harvard Law School, 2017.
Sharswood Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Tracey (Shollenberger) Lloyd

Tracey (Shollenberger) Lloyd

PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2015.
Vice President for Science, Center for Policing Equity.


Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute, 2014-2019.

Tracey Lloyd Tracey Lloyd is Vice President for Science at the Center for Policing Equity, where she uses the National Justice Database to answer pressing questions about police-youth interactions and the use of force. Prior to joining CPE, she directed studies of school discipline and policing at the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center and co-led their Policing and Crime Prevention research team. 

Adam Looney

Adam Looney

PhD in Economics, 2004.
Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow in Economic Studies and Director of the Center on Regulation and Markets, The Brookings Institution.


Visiting Professor of Finance, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, 2019-2020. 
Visiting Faculty, Department of Economics, Brown University, 2017.
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis, U.S. Treasury, 2014-2017.
Senior Fellow in Economics, The Brookings Institution, 2010-2013.
Policy Director, The Hamilton Project, 2010-2013.
Senior Economist, Council of Economic Advisers, 2009-2010.
Economist, U.S. Federal Reserve Board, 2004-2010.

Michael Luca

Michael Luca

Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration


Research interests: Economist. Works closely with companies and cities to help them become more data-driven.

Luca's current work focuses on digital data and platforms, analyzing a variety of companies including Yelp, Amazon, and Airbnb. Luca also works on issues related to the design of information disclosure, focusing on the behavioral foundations of how people make decisions.