Guests

EconomiC Policy

Austan Goolsbee – former WH Chair of Council of Economic Advisers; Chicago Booth economics professor
Alan Blinder – former Vice Chair of Federal Reserve; Princeton economics professor
Bill Dudley – former NY Federal Reserve President; senior research fellow at Princeton GCEPS
Michael Froman – former U.S. Trade Representative
Jeffrey Shafer – former Undersecretary of Treasury for International Affairs
Brad Setser – Counselor to the U.S. Trade Representative; former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Treasury for International Economic Analysis
Scott Morris – former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Treasury for Development Finance and Debt
Michael Hüther – Director of the German Economic Institute
Rachel Glennerster – Chief Economist at UK’s Department for International Development (DFID)
Arvind Panagariya – former Vice Chair of NITI Aayog of India, de facto chief economic advisor for Prime Minister Modi; Columbia economics professor

Branko Milanovic – author of Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World; expert on global inequality
Robert Frank – author of Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work
Katharina Pistor – author of The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
Rebecca Henderson – author of Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
William Gale – author of Fiscal Therapy: Curing America's Debt Addiction and Investing in the Future
Adam Tooze – author of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
Bill Janeway – author of Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Reconfiguring the Three-Player Game between Markets, Speculators and the State
Glen Weyl – author of Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
Simon Johnson – author of Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream
Harold James – author of Making a Modern Central Bank: The Bank of England, 1979–2003

Markus Brunnermeier – Princeton economics professor; host of Markus Academy
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg – Princeton economics professor; leader in spatial economics, macro, and trade research
Tim Besley – LSE economics professor; former President of the Econometric Society; pioneer in development and normative economics
Hunt Allcott – Microsoft Research; co-Editor of Journal of Public Economics; pioneer in behavioral public economics
Emil Verner – MIT Sloan economics professor

Richard V. Spencer – former U.S. Secretary of the Navy and Acting Secretary of Defense
Trey Gowdy – former Congressman from S.C.; former Chairs of the House Oversight and Benghazi Committees
Dave Wasserman – House Editor for The Cook Political Report; prominent election forecaster
Jim VandeHei – co-founder and CEO of Axios and the former executive editor and co-founder of Politico
David Pakman – Host of The David Pakman Show
Robert Barnes – constitutional trial lawyer for Alex Jones, the Covington Kids, Ralph Nadar, etc.
Julian Zelizer – Princeton history and policy professor; author of Burning Down the House; co-host of Politics & Polls podcast with Sam Wang
Sam Wang – Princeton neuroscience professor; founder of Princeton Election Consortium and the Princeton Gerrymandering Project
Omar Wasow – Princeton politics professor

Blair Effron – co-founder of Centerview Partners; Vice Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations
David McCormick – CEO of Bridgewater Associates
Anthony Yoseloff – CIO of Davidson Kempner Capital Management
Andy Golden – CIO of Princeton Investment Company (PRINCO)
Joyce Chang – Global Chair of Research at J.P. Morgan
Christopher Marks – Head of Emerging Markets for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG)
Torsten Slok – Chief Economist of Apollo Global Management and former Chief Economist of Deutsche Bank
Pete Muller – founder of PDT Partners
Stephen Roach – former Chief Economist of Morgan Stanley and Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia
Jacques Bughin – former Director of McKinsey Global Institute
Martin Fleming – Chief Economist of IBM
Iwao Fusillo – Chief Data Analytics Officer at General Motors and former SVP of the NFL
Chris Wheat – Co-President of the JPMorgan Chase Institute

Dan Berkovitz – CFTC Commissioner
Stephanie Avakian – Co-Director of Enforcement at the SEC
Norm Champ – former Director of the Division of Investment Management at the SEC

Robert Langer – MIT Institute Professor; the most cited engineer in human history; co-founder of Moderna; head of the Langer Lab at MIT, the largest biomedical engineering lab in the world
George Church – Geneticist; founder of the Human Genome Project; pioneer of CRISPR gene editing technology
Regina Barzilay – MIT Distinguished Professor for AI and Health; faculty lead for AI at the MIT Jameel Clinic
Steven Girvin – Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and former deputy provost for science and technology at Yale; pioneer in quantum mechanics
Lee Cronin – Regius Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow; leads the Cronin Group lab; exploring digital chemistry

Jason Bordoff – founding Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA
Daniel Kammen – Professor of Energy at UC Berkley
Steven Cowley – Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Bill Bohnett – Chair of Advisory Board, the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Varun Sivaram – Senior research scholar at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy

Peter Singer – Princeton philosophy professor; leader of the animal liberation and effective altruism movements
James Steward – Director of Princeton University Art Museum
Sheldon Solomon – social psychologist at Skidmore College; inventor of the terror management theory; author of The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
Rob Henderson – Gates-Cambridge Scholar and PhD candidate in social psychology
Zena Hitz – Tutor at St. John’s College; author of Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
Annette Zimmerman – philosopher at Princeton University studying AI ethics
Merle Eisenberg – history postdoc at National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center; host of the Infectious Historians podcast
Ewan Kingston – Princeton philosophy postdoc

Nicholas Lemann – Dean Emeritus of Columbia Journalism School; author of Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream
Ian Johnson – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; author of The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao
Greg Zuckerman – WSJ financial journalist; author of The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Liam Vaughan – Bloomberg financial journalist; author of Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt, and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History
Robinson Meyer – co-founder of The COVID Tracking Project; climate writer at The Atlantic
Russell Gold – WSJ energy journalist; author of Superpower: One Man's Quest to Transform American Energy & The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
Newley Purnell – WSJ tech journalist in India and HK