The Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute announced the visiting scholars selected to conduct research while in residence at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis for 2026–2027.

Institute visiting scholars will research questions that address how to increase economic opportunity for all Americans and how opportunity and inclusion work in America today. These scholars include award winners, full professors, new Ph.D.s, and midcareer economists who bring with them a variety of research interests and technical expertise as well as a broad range of experiences.

“Visiting scholars are central to the vibrancy of the Institute,” said Andrew Goodman-Bacon, a principal research economist at the Institute who helped lead the search for visitors. “We trade in ideas, and our visiting scholars come to share new ideas as well as to generate them.”

In addition to the Visiting Scholar program, the Institute hosts an annual research conference for academic and policy experts from across the country to discuss leading-edge research related to the Institute’s mission. The 2026 event will take place October 8.

Since 2017, the Institute has hosted a total of 172 visiting scholars in nine cohorts. The following scholars make up the Institute’s 10th cohort.

2026–2027 visiting scholars

• Titan Alon, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego
• Isaiah Andrews, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Paula Donaldson, Assistant Professor of Economics, Brown University
• Andres Drenik, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Austin
• Maryam Farboodi, Jon D. Gruber Career Development Associate Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Ana Paula Franco, Assistant Professor, University of Manchester
• Kyle Greenberg, Associate Professor of Economics, United States Military Academy at West Point
• Ingrid Haegele, Associate Professor of Economics, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich
• Peter Hull, Professor of Economics, Brown University
• Elena Pellegrini, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam
• Xavier Ragot, Professor of Economics, Sciences Po
• Amalia Repele, Assistant Professor of Economics, Institute for International Economic Studies
• Bradley Setzler, Strumpf Early Career Associate Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University
• Oscar Volpe, Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University
• Emma Wiles, Isabel Anderson Career Development Professor, Boston University Questrom School of Business
• Francis Wong, Associate Professor of Economics, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich

The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis is one of 12 regional Reserve Banks that, with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., make up the Federal Reserve System, the nation’s central bank. The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis is responsible for the Ninth Federal Reserve District, which includes Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, northwestern Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis participates in setting national monetary policy, supervises numerous banking organizations, and provides a variety of payments services to financial institutions and the U.S. government.