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    Our contributors are drawn from researchers in academia, industry, and non-profit organizations with expertise ranging from economics and public policy to innovation and emerging technologies.

    Adam Ozimek

    Adam Ozimek is the Chief Economist at Upwork, the world's work marketplace, where he leads research on labor market trends. He writes broadly about recent trends in labor markets, demographics, immigration, urban economics, and empirical economics.

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    Alec Stapp

    Alec Stapp was the director of technology policy at PPI. His work focuses on regulatory issues related to tech, including antitrust, privacy, and content moderation.

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    Andrew Bennett

    Andrew is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Tony Blair Institute, focusing on internet policy and geopolitics. He’s particularly interested in how to renew institutions, infrastructure and regulation for the internet era. He is an expert on digital identity and previously worked at the Tony Blair Institute on public services reform.

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    Ashish Arora

    Ashish Arora is the Rex D. Adams Professor of Business Administration, Duke Fuqua School of Business. He received his PhD in Economics from Stanford University in 1992, and was on the faculty at the Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University, where he held the H. John Heinz Professorship, till 2009.

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    Benedict Macon-Cooney

    Benedict Macon-Cooney is the Deputy Executive Director for Technology and Public Policy at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Benedict works on accelerating science and innovation, with a particular focus on biotech, climate tech and the future of food.

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    Caleb Watney

    Caleb Watney was the director of innovation policy at PPI. His work focuses on the policy levers the US can use to increase long-term rates of innovation, including high-skill immigration, basic science funding, R&D incentives, and the development of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence.

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    Claudia Persico

    Claudia Persico, an economist, is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at American University, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and an IZA Institute of Labor Economics Research Affiliate. Her research focuses on environmental policy, inequality, health and education policy using causal inference methods.

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    Daniel Oberhaus

    Daniel Oberhaus is a science writer based in Brooklyn, New York. He was previously a staff writer at Wired magazine covering space exploration and the future of energy. His first book, Extraterrestrial Languages is about the art and science of interstellar communication and was published by MIT Press in 2019.

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    Dirk Auer

    Dirk Auer works as Senior Fellow in Law & Economics at the International Center for Law & Economics. His work focuses on the law and economics of antitrust, with an emphasis on innovation policy, digital markets and European competition law.

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    Doug Rand

    Doug Rand is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and Innovation Initiative at the Federation of American Scientists, focusing on the intersection of immigration policy and artificial intelligence (AI) in advancing the nation’s national security and economic growth.

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    Jack Karsten

    Jack Karsten is the managing director of the Innovation Frontier Project at PPI. In addition to running IFP's daily operations, his research interests include automation, skills training, and the future of work.

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    James Bessen

    James Bessen, an economist, is the Executive Director of the Technology & Policy Research Initiative at Boston University School of Law. Mr. Bessen has done research on whether patents promote innovation, why innovators share new knowledge, and how technology affects jobs, skills, and wages.

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    Joe Kennedy

    Joe Kennedy is currently Senior Principal Economist for MITRE, Inc. He has spent 30 years working at the intersection of public policy and technology. Previous positions include Senior Fellow at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Chief Economist at the Department of Commerce, and General Counsel of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

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    Keith Belton

    Keith Belton is Senior Director of Policy Analysis with the American Chemistry Council. His research and writings explore the intersection of public policy and private markets, with particular focus on economic development, regulation, and competitiveness.

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    Larisa C. Cioaca

    Larisa C. Cioaca is a PhD student in Strategy at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Her research focuses on the impact of government procurement on corporate scientific research, as well as the relationship between public and private science.

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    Lindsay Milliken

    Lindsay Milliken is a Policy Analyst for Science, Technology, and Innovation at the Federation of American Scientists.  She supports both the Congressional Science Policy Initiative and the Technology and Innovation Initiative.

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    Liz Wilke, Ph.D.

    Dr. Liz Wilke is a principal economist at Gusto, researching the state of work and business in the modern economy. She is a veteran of both the technology and government sectors, where she directed research programs and public spending that supports dynamic, resilient companies and workers across the globe. Prior to joining Gusto, Liz worked […]

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    M. Anthony Mills

    M. Anthony Mills is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies the federal government’s role in science and innovation and the relationship between scientific expertise and our governing institutions. He is also a senior fellow at the Pepperdine School of Public Policy.

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    Marshall Reinsdorf

    Marshall Reinsdorf was a senior economist at the International Monetary Fund and president of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth. Prior to joining the IMF, he was chief of the National Accounts Research Group at the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

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    Martin Carkett

    Martin Carkett is the Policy Lead in the Science & Innovation Unit at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Martin's work focuses on a broad range of areas across science and innovation including Health and Biotech, Structures of Science, and Innovations in Financial Markets.

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    Matt Clancy

    Matt Clancy is a progress studies fellow through Emergent Ventures and an assistant teaching professor at Iowa State University. He previously worked as a research economist on science policy for the USDA. He is the author of The Case for Remote Work and the newsletter "New Things Under the Sun".

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    Max Beverton-Palmer

    Max is Director of the Internet Policy Unit at the Tony Blair Institute. He leads a global team generating radical, sensible progressive tech policy to address some of the challenges and opportunities wrought by the internet and the digital platform economy.

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    Sharon Belenzon

    Sharon Belenzon s a professor in the Strategy area at the Fuqua School of Business of Duke University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research investigates the role of business in advancing science and has been featured in top academic journals, such as Management Science, Strategic Management Journal and American Economic Review.

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