Stephen L. Ross is a professor of economics at the University of Connecticut. Professor Ross has conducted extensive research in the area of housing and mortgage lending discrimination, residential and school segregation, and neighborhood effects in urban labor markets. He is the author of the Color of Credit published by MIT Press and has published extensively in prestigious academic journals including the Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Urban Economics and Social Problems.

Maria Rosales-Rueda is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine. She has worked at Fedesarrollo, a Colombian think tank, at the World Bank, and at the Inter-American Development Bank. Her dissertation investigates the interactions between family investments, early-life shocks and human capital formation among children. In other work with Professor Heckman and Rodrigo Pinto, she studies the channels (e.g. maternal investments and children's skills) underlying a nurse home visiting program in the U.S.

Arthur J. Rolnick is senior vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and an associate economist with the Federal Open Market Committee. As a top official of the Federal Reserve Bank, Mr. Rolnick regularly attends meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee - the Federal Reserve's principal body responsible for establishing national money and credit policies.

Rolnick received a B.S. in Mathematics and a M.S. in Economics from Wayne State University, and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1973.

Jean-Marc Robin is a Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics of Sciences Po, Paris. He is also Professor of Economics at University College London and a team member of the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice at IFS. His research interests are in microeconometrics, labour microeconomics, and search and matching.

Robin received a D.E.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Paris in 1985 and 1988 respectively.

Marla Ripoll is a Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh, where she also serves as Core Faculty of the Center of Latin American Studies and the Global Studies Program.

She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Macroeconomics, a member of the Advisory Board of the Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Conference, a member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Group, and a member of the Economics Research Network of the Colombia Central Bank.

Debraj Ray is presently Julius Silver Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate Studies in Economics at New York University. He has held long-term positions at Stanford University, the Indian Statistical Institute, and at Boston University, where he was Director of the Institute for Economic Development. He has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, MIT, the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (Rio de Janeiro), the People's University of China (Beijing) and the London School of Economics.

Ravikumar's research on human capital covers a wide range of topics: from public education financing determined by the majority to economic growth and inequality. He has been a member of the faculty at the University of Virginia, the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Iowa. He is currently part of the Research Division at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Raghuram Rajan is the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. Dr. Rajan is also currently an economic advisor to the Prime Minister of India. Prior to resuming teaching in 2007, Dr. Rajan was the Economic Counselor and Director of Research (in plain English, the Chief Economist) at the International Monetary Fund.

Climent Quintana-Domeque (Barcelona, 1980) is Professor of Economics at the University of Exeter, a Research Fellow at IZA (Bonn) and a network member of the Human Capital Economic Opportunity Family Inequality working group (Chicago). Climent received his Llicenciatura from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (first ranked in the class of 2002) and completed his PhD in Economics at Princeton University in 2008.

Lee joined INET in 2011 after 28 years in various positions in Washington, DC. He was Chief Economist at House Appropriations the last four years and has held a similar title at the Commerce Department under President Clinton, and at other congressional committees (Joint Economic, Senate Budget, House and Senate Banking). He was also Research Director at the Economic Policy Institute. Over the years, his research interests have included monetary and fiscal policy, labor economics and income distribution, tax policy, and international trade and finance.