Principal Investigators
Dr. Nathan Lane
Associate Professor, Economics
University of Oxford
Prior to Oxford, Dr. Lane was an economics professor at Monash University, where he cofounded SodaLabs.io. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a fellow of the Roosevelt Institute, and an affiliate of CESifo.
Board of Advisors
Nancy Gallini
Professor Emeritus
Vancouver School of Economics
The University of British Columbia
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Ann E. Harrison
Dean and Bank of America Chair
Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley
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Dani Rodrik
Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
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Research Team
Verónica Pérez
Lab Manager/Co-Author
PhD Student in Economics at Boston University. Previously, she was a Predoctoral Fellow at Columbia University, and a Graduate Research Assistant at Universidad de los Andes, where she earned her BSc and MA in economics.
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Emily Oehlsen
PhD Student/Co-Author
PhD Student in Economics at the University of Oxford and Senior Program Officer at Open Philanthropy. Previously, she worked at DeepMind, Uber, and TGG Group. She has a BSFS in International Political Economy from Georgetown University and an MPhil in Economics from Oxford.
Max Marczinek
PhD Student/Co-Author
PhD student in Economics at the University of Oxford, working on Trade, Development, and Economic History
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Esha Vaze
Research Assistant
Esha is a Bachelor of International Economics student at the University of British Columbia. Previously she worked as a research assistant at Krea University and the Delhi School of Economics.
Pablo Valenzuela C
PhD Student
Pablo is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at The University of British Columbia. He is interested in urban economics and its intersection with race and immigration. He holds a BA in business and economics and MA in economics from PUC-Chile.
Hannah Yi Wei
PhD Student
PhD in Economics student at the University of Oxford, working on Innovation, Trade, and Gender Economics. She also works as a consultant for the World Bank. She holds an MPhil in Economics from Oxford University and a BA in Economics from University College London.
Dilan Yang
MPhil Student/Co-Author
Dilan (also goes by Kristen) is an MPhil in Economics student at Oxford. She holds a BA in Economics from University of Cambridge, and a Masters in Global Affairs from Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University, China.
Giulia Lo Forte
PhD Student/Co-Author
Giulia is a PhD candidate in economics at The University of British Columbia. Her research interests lie in International Trade, Innovation, and Spatial Economics with a particular focus on product innovation and the diffusion of intangible capital.
Lottie Field
Predoctoral Associate
Lottie is a full-time predoctoral researcher for the Industrial Policy Group. She investigates industrial policy using messy data. She has an MSc in Economics for Development and a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford.
Mikhael Gaster
Research Assistant
Mikhael [mi: kaI: jɛl] holds a MA in Economics and a BA in Economics & Mathematics from the University of British Columbia. He also works as a Data Science Research Fellow at the Jain Family Institute.
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Saumya Joshi
Research Assistant
PhD student in Food and Resource Economics, University of British Columbia, working on land markets and structural transformation in developing countries.
Aswin Chansrichawla
Research Assistant
Aswin (also goes by Gian) is an MPhil student in Economic and Social History at the University of Oxford. He holds a BA in International Development from King's College London. His primary research interests are industrial policy and economic development in Thailand.