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Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute

Institute Economists

Alex Albright

Research Economist, Institute

Alessandra Fogli

Assistant Director for Inequality Research and Monetary Advisor

Andrew Goodman-Bacon

Senior Research Economist, Institute

Illenin O. Kondo

Senior Research Economist, Institute

Amanda Michaud

Senior Research Economist, Institute

Mallika Thomas

Research Economist, Institute

Abigail Wozniak

Vice President and Director, Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute

Communications and Associate Economists

Lisa Camner McKay

Senior Writer, Institute

Ken Cowles

Research Associate, Institute

Monique Davis

Research Assistant, Institute

Richard Liu

Research Associate, Institute

CONSULTANTS

Mariacristina De Nardi

Consultant, Institute
Thomas Sargent Professor of Economics
University of Minnesota

Advisory Board

Our Institute Advisory Board is a group of distinguished academics who reflect our commitment to connecting with leading-edge research on economic opportunity and inclusion across disciplines.
Ford Professor of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mayo Professor and Division Head, Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health
University of Minnesota
Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
Columbia University
Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics, and Director at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity
Duke University
Professor of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor of Economics and Executive Director of the Murphy Institute
Tulane University
Professor of Economics
University of Chicago
Professor of Finance and Business Economics
University of Southern California Marshall School of Business
Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy
University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy
Professor of Economics
University of Chicago
Tisch University Professor of Computer Science
Cornell University
Professor of Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
Professor of Law
Fordham University
Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in Economics
University of Chicago
Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Public Policy and Professor of Economics
University of California, Berkeley
Distinguished Professor
Indiana University
Director of Research and Statistics
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance and Director of the George J. Stigler Center
University of Chicago Booth School of Business

System Affiliates Board

System affiliates are research economists drawn from across the Federal Reserve System who are actively working on questions related to the Institute mission. Together, they help connect the Institute to all the Reserve Banks and the Board of Governors. 
Senior Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Research Advisor
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Senior Economist and Economic Advisor
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Research Economist & Senior Advisor
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Senior Economist & Research Advisor
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Economic and Policy Advisor & Director of the Program on Economic Inclusion
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Research Officer
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Assistant Director, Division of Research & Statistics
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Economic Advisor & Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Senior Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Economic Policy Advisor and Senior Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas