Stefano Mosso is a Quantitative Strategist at Aquatic Capital Management. His current research focuses on issues related to labor economics and econometrics with particular attention to the study of the returns to education, the dynamics of the labor market and the determinants of inequality. He received a Laurea in Political Science from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa, a Double Degree in International Political Economy from Sciences-Po Paris and the London School of Economics and a Master in Economics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

We note with sadmess the passing of HCEO member Seong Hyeok Moon, who passed away at his home in Seoul June 18, 2024. He had been active in the Institute of Economic Research of Seoul National University. He was a Research Fellow at Economics Research Center in the Department of Economics, University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Chicago in 2011. His research interests include empirical labor economics and micro-econometrics, with a particular focus on skill formation, intergenerational transmission and early childhood intervention.

Ferdinando Monte is Assistant Professor of Economics at Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business. His research is on the interplay between international trade, wage inequality and the organization of firms. He has also done research on differences in gender outcomes across countries.

Monte received a B.A. in Economics from Università Bocconi in 2004, an M.Sc. in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2005, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2009 and 2011 respectively. 

Alexander Monge-Naranjo is a macroeconomist with a wide array of research interests centered on frictions and imperfections in the labor and credit markets. His most recent work has focused on the impact of credit constraints on the formation of human capital, specifically on investments in higher education.

Robert Moffitt is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University, where he has worked since September 1995. Prior to assuming his position at Johns Hopkins, Professor Moffitt was Professor of Economics at Brown University, where he taught for eleven years. Professor Moffitt's research is on the economics of the labor market, the family, and welfare systems for the poor. He has also studied statistical, econometric, and methodological issues in economics and other social science research, including a focus on data quality issues. Dr.

Branko Milanovic is a leading scholar on income inequality. In 2014, he joined the Graduate Center as Visiting Presidential Professor and LIS Senior Scholar. Before coming to the Graduate Center, he was Lead Economist in the World Bank's research department. He is the author of numerous articles on methodology and empirics of global income distribution and effects of globalization. His most recent book "The Haves and the Have-nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality," Basic Books was published in December 2010.

Martí Mestieri's research lies at the intersection of macroeconomics and development economics. He is particularly interested in human capital acquisition and technology adoption. His research topics include the design of educational systems in the presence of private information and borrowing constraints, the effects of the IT revolution on wage inequality and the pattern of specialization, and the study of the interplay between technology diffusion and economic development.

Antonio Merlo is the George A. Peterkin Professor and department chair of economics at Rice University. He was previously the Lawrence R. Klein Professor of Economics and the Director of the Penn Institute for Economic Research (PIER) at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Research Fellow of CEPR and CESifo and a Research Associate of NBER. Before joining the Economics faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor Merlo taught at the University of Minnesota and New York University.

Meghir joined UCL in 1985, where I remained until 2010. He is currently Professor of Economics at Yale University. His research spans a broad set of fields, including family economics, household consumption, savings and labor supply behavior, wage determination and earnings dynamics, educational choice and its effects on wages and individual careers, the impact of quality of education, intergenerational transmission of education and health and the economics of crime.

Alexis Medina is the Program Manager for Health and Nutrition at the Rural Education Action Program (REAP) at Stanford University. She has been researching the economics of social issues in China for over ten years. She has extensive experience in international program management, including leading survey teams in rural China, overseeing the design and development of field projects, and coordinating data collection and analysis. She has co-authored several academic publications on the intersection of health and education in rural China.