PRINCETON UNIVERSITY - Key Persons

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MPA, Class of 2018, Field IV ( Economics and Public Policy )

Ajita is an MPA candidate at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. She is an Indian Civil Servant with five years of experience in operational planning and execution of movement of freight and passenger trains; modernization of freight terminals; redevelopment of railway stations through PPP models; expansion of railway projects, improving safety and preparedness for disaster management. She has also worked on improving revenue generation through capacity addition of passenger and freight trains; upgradation of passenger amenities in railway stations; new revenue models for commercial contracts and advertising; redressal of public grievances; streamlining CSR funds for railway projects; coordination with Members of Parliament (MPs) in India for policy/ legislative initiatives addressing public demands. Ajita is passionate about infrastructure financing as a means to boost local economies and its long term impact on growth redistribution and poverty reduction. After Princeton, she hopes to work at a multilateral institution to support the appetite of developing countries for equitable growth as they strive hard to catch up with the developed world.

Alen Palic

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Alex Entz

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MPA, Economic Policy

Alex Entz is an MPA *20 graduate at the Woodrow Wilson School, who focused on the intersection between international economics and foreign policy. An Iowa native, he graduated from Northwestern University in 2014, where he majored in economics and also studied math and creative writing. Upon graduating, Alex worked on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Markets Desk, where he traded mortgage-backed securities and also spent time on the foreign exchange and domestic money market desks. Alex then worked as a budget and enrollment strategist for the City Colleges of Chicago before moving to D.C. on a Public Interest Fellowship, where he served as a sanctions analyst and then as the policy aide and speechwriter for the CEO of the Hudson Institute.

Alex Kaufman

Alex is an MPA *20 graduate at the Woodrow Wilson School with interests in economic policy, financial regulation and impact investing. He previously worked in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Office of Research, and for the econ-ARK project.

Alex Slusher

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Alexandre Gaillard

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Post - Doctoral Research Associate / Office

Alice Chang

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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau As a Director
MPA, Economics & Public Policy / School of Public and International Affairs / Class of 2021

Alice completed her MPA in economics and public policy at the School of Public and International Affairs. She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with degrees in economics and finance. Upon graduating, Alice joined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a Director's Financial Analyst, where she worked on issues related to student loans and mortgages, the two largest consumer financial markets. Alice analyzed consumer complaints on student loans to help set policy priorities for Office for Students and was on the team tasked with assessing CFPB's Mortgage Servicing regulations. Most recently, she was a Research and Policy Analyst at the Student Borrower Protection Center, an organization solely dedicated towards alleviating the burden of student debt for millions of Americans.

Alis Yoo

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Allen Dai

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Alonso Soto

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Alonso started his journalism career reporting on immigration and labor unions in Chicago for Reuters before heading to Ecuador to start a 12-year tour through Latin America where he wrote about everything from violent demonstrations, shocking debt defaults, a massive earthquake and the impeachment of a president. Growing up in a country torn by civil war and economic chaos, Alonso has focused on public policy in Latin America with the last six years devoted to covering economics in one of the world's biggest economies, Brazil. He wants to further his knowledge of economics, concentrating on fiscal and industrial policies as the region enters a new era of slower growth after riding the wave of record-high commodity prices for the last decade.

Andre Radensky

Andres P. Sarto

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Postdoctoral Research Associate

Andres Sarto is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance at the Woodrow Wilson School. His research studies the implications of microeconomic and regional interactions for macroeconomic outcomes, from an applied, methodological and theoretical perspective. One line of research investigates new ways of leveraging regional variation across time to estimate macroeconomic elasticities at the national level, both in linear and non-linear economies. In an application of this methodology, he estimates the national fiscal multiplier in the United States to be approximately one, suggesting that either crowding out or crowding in of private spending is likely small. In other work, he focuses on the relationship between government intervention in the banking sector and long-run growth, providing a novel mechanism to explain why this intervention might reduce the growth rate in economies with a less developed financial sector. He received his PhD in Economics from MIT in 2019.

Andrew Tynes

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Andy He

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Anja Tonkovic-Capin

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Anne Kuhnen

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MPA, Economic Policy / Class of 2020

Anne is an MPA *20 graduate from the Woodrow Wilson School with an interest in rural and regional economic development. She was previously a teacher in Kentucky, where she taught high school math and computer science.

Anthony Chase

Anthony Chase is a MPA *20 graduate who studied domestic and urban policy at the Woodrow Wilson School. He is interested in cities, public finance and economic development. Anthony received his BA from the University of Michigan in 2012 with concentrations in political science, Arabic and Islamic studies. His undergraduate thesis examined the growth of the Islamic banking sector in Britain and France. Before Princeton, Anthony served as the director of programs at Humanity in Action in New York. In this role, he developed programs about urban, civic and international policy issues in Detroit, Atlanta, Washington, Cairo and Paris. He is a fellow with the Urban Design Forum and a board member of Libraries Without Borders.

Anthony Cilluffo

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MPA, Economics & Public Policy / School of Public and International Affairs / Class of 2021

Anthony Cilluffo completed his Master in Public Affairs program in the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is focusing on economics and public policy, with interests in public economics and fiscal policy. Prior to coming to Princeton, Anthony worked at Pew Research Center on the Social and Demographic Trends team. He focused on income and wealth inequality, education and student loans, and demographics. He was also a research assistant to University of South Florida Distinguished Professor Susan MacManus, co-authoring chapters on the economic and demographic trends that reshaped the U.S. South since 1970 in The South and the Transformation of U.S. Politics (Oxford University Press, 2019) and the conclusion to Larry Sabato's Trumped: The 2016 Election That Broke All the Rules (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). He graduated from the University of South Florida with degrees in Economics and Political Science and attended the London School of Economics.

Ararat Gocmen

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Arman Badrei

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Aron Villarreal

Arthur Shemitz

Arthur, who can never be found too far from the nearest cat, grew up in Santa Cruz, California, and received his Bachelor of Arts in gender studies from Whitman College. He began his career promoting zero-emission vehicle market development in the California Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development. His career has since been driven by a passion for retirement policy, and he spent the summer finishing his work as a legislative analyst at the California State Teachers' Retirement System. Arthur's proudest accomplishments include being featured by J.Crew for his personal style, submitting a correction accepted by the New York Times and creating the Buzzfeed quiz "Which California State Agency Are You?" At Princeton, he looks forward to growing as a public servant and building his quantitative policy analysis toolkit.

Arturo Leis-Pretto

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Ashesh Rambachan

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Founding Undergraduate Associate

Ashley Kim

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Founding Undergraduate Associate

Atif Mian

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Member of the Leadership & Staff
Director, JRCPPF

Bailey Ransom

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Director of Mentorship ( 2021 - 22 ) Co - Director of Communications ( 2020 - 21 )

Benjamin Fridman

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Founding Undergraduate Associate

Benjamin Hardy

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Senior Research Specialist

Benjamin Moll

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Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs

Brad Spicher

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Carl Christian Kontz

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Senior Research Specialist

Cecilia E. Rouse

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Member of the Executive Committee
Dean, School of Public and International Affairs Katzman - Ernst Professor in Economics and Education Professor of Economics and Public Affairs / Executive Committee Member

Christopher Perron

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Founding Undergraduate Associate

Claire Liu

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Founding Undergraduate Associate

Clemens Lehner

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Senior Research Specialist

Cristoforo Pizzimenti

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Senior Research Specialist

Daniel Chen

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Founding Undergraduate Associate

Dean Makino

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Founding Undergraduate Associate

Devin Stearns

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Founding Undergraduate Associate

Dhruv Bansal

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Founding Undergraduate Associate / Investment Banking Analyst, Centerview Partners

Domagoj Babic

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Founding Undergraduate Associate

Douglas Guyett

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Founding Undergraduate Associate / Partner, Latigo Insights

Dr. Anita Gupta

Dr. Anita Gupta was born in Philadelphia and grew up in a small suburb in nearby Camden County, New Jersey. She is a well-recognized leader and voice on the prescription and opioid overdose epidemic on both a local and national level. She is both a physician anesthesiologist specializing in pain management, and a pharmacist, which allows her to share unique thoughts on this serious public health issue. She has worked for the last twenty years as a pharmacist, corporate executive, and in academic clinical medicine at where she served to train residents and medical students while caring for ill patients with intractable pain. Dr. Anita Gupta is appointed faculty in the department of anesthesiology and critical care medicine and pain medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include pain medicine, health policy, biotechnology, drug development, corporate and government affairs. Dr. Gupta completed her residency in anesthesiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington DC and her pain fellowship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She received her doctorate in pharmacy from Rutgers University, New Jersey. Dr. Gupta completed her master's in public policy and health policy from Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, general management from Harvard Business School and her medical school at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Among her many professional activities, Dr. Gupta serves as a board of director of public and private sector organizations, she has served as an appointed member of the U. S. Food and Drug Administration, National Academies of Sciences Global Forum and National Quality Forum. She was named a Global Emerging Leader, Top 100 Most Inspiring Leader and a Harvard Business School Speaker, and is an active member of a number of professional organizations including the American Society of Anesthesiologists, a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academies of Practice, and The Milken Institute Faster Cures Advisory Council. She continues to work closely with leaders both on Capitol Hill and the U.S. FDA to find solutions to solve the opioid epidemic and pain crisis in the United States.

Elessar Chen

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Senior Research Specialist I

Emily Philippides

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Co - Chair of the Undergraduate Associates ( 2021 - 22 ) Co - Director of Communications ( 2020 - 21 )

Evelyn Wong

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International Development

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich

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Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard

George Brady

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MPP, Economics and Public Policy / School of Public and International Affairs / Class of 2022

Giorgia Barboni

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Post - Doctoral Research Associate / Visited Fall 2016 & Spring 2017

Gizem Sucuoglu

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MPP, International Relations / School of Public and International Affairs / Class of 2022

Glen Weyl

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Visiting Research Scholar

Gokul Gopalan Ramachandran

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MPA, Economic Policy

Gokul is a Masters in Public Affairs *20 graduate from the Woodrow Wilson School. After completing Engineering, he cleared the Civil Services Exam to enter the Indian Administrative Service. He has held leadership positions in regional government organizations and in State administrative departments. He is interested in exploring external borrowing choices of national and sub-national governments and its effects on long term growth.