Our Experts

The Bureau includes former administration officials, policy experts, economists, and leaders in academia available to speak to a wide range of issues and add underrepresented voices and new perspectives to economic coverage.

Nabil Ahmed Senior Director of Economic Justice, Oxfam America
Gbenga Ajilore Chief Economist, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Skanda Amarnath Executive Director, Employ America
Alvaro Bedoya Former Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
Sharon Block Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy, Harvard Law School
Heather Boushey Professor of Practice, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, and Senior Research Fellow, Reimagining the Economy Project at Harvard Kennedy School
Alejandra Y. Castillo Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development
Brendan Duke Senior Director for Federal Budget Policy, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Indivar Dutta-Gupta Advisor, Community Change
Kathryn Anne Edwards Economist
Lisette Orellana Engel Director of Economic Policy, UnidosUS
Leandra English Senior Advisor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michele Evermore Senior Fellow, National Academy of Social Insurance
Sameera Fazili Former Deputy Director, National Economic Council
Jessica Fulton Policy & Advocacy Consultant
Kate Gordon CEO, California Forward
Jennifer Harris Former Senior Director, National Security Council and National Economic Council
Angela Hanks Director of Policy Programs, The Century Foundation
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Faculty of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Daniel Hornung Former Deputy Director, National Economic Council
Aya Ibrahim Former Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of State
Alex Jacquez Senior Vice President of Policy, Advocacy & Research, Groundwork Collaborative
Bobby Kogan Senior Director of Federal Budget Policy, Center for American Progress
Michael Linden Senior Policy Fellow, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Doha Mekki Former Acting Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division
Michael Negron Senior Fellow for Economic Opportunity, Center for American Progress
Elizabeth Pancotti Vice President of Policy, Advocacy, & Research, Groundwork Collaborative
Shilpa Phadke Former Deputy Director, White House Gender Policy Council
K. Sabeel Rahman Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, and Co-Founder, Law and Political Economy Project
Bharat Ramamurti Former Deputy Director of the National Economic Council
Kitty Richards Senior Strategic Advisor, Groundwork Collaborative
Alfredo Romero Chair of Economics, North Carolina A&T State University
Gus Rossi Senior Director of Programs & Policy, Omidyar Network
Lorelei Salas Former Director of Supervision, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Julie Siegel Former Deputy Federal Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Ganesh Sitaraman Professor of Law and Director of the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator, Vanderbilt Law School
Graham Steele Former Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Anisha Steephen Former Senior Policy Advisor for Racial Equity, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Shayna Strom President and CEO, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Ambassador Katherine Tai Former United States Trade Representative
Elizabeth Wilkins President and CEO, The Roosevelt Institute
Tim Wu Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Vanessa Williamson Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, Brookings