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, Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford GSB, holds a PhD from Stanford. She has served on the faculty at MIT, Stanford, and Harvard. She received the John Bates Clark Medal in 2007, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and is the 2023 President of the American Economics Association.

Her research covers digitisation, marketplace design, causal machine learning, and the design of complex experiments. She is faculty director of the Golub Capital Social Impact Lab at Stanford GSB. In 2022, she became Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division.

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Applying the Technology Toolkit for Social Impact

Oriana Bandiera is Professor of Economics and Sir Anthony Atkinson Chair in Economics at the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

Oriana is also the State Research Programme Director for the IGC and Member of the IGC Steering Group Co-Director of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳-Gates Hub for Equal Representation.  

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Meaning at Work

is the Drummond Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford and All Souls College. In addition to his role at Oxford, Noam is a Managing Editor at the Review of Economic Studies. His research is focused on topics in the fields of political economy, economic history, and labour economics.

First, the importance of educational content and the structure of educational institutions in the production of human capital.Second, the political economy of legal institutions: particularly how they affect labour market outcomes and development, and how they are affected by political institutions in which they are embedded. Third, the study of social interactions that shape economic and political behaviour. Fourth, the drivers of political ideology and participation in political movements. Finally, the role of the state in promoting economic growth and innovation.

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Behavioural Political Economy: Studying Political Movements in Real Time