James Foster is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at George Washington University. He is also research associate at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at Oxford University. His research is in development and theory, with an emphasis on measurement of poverty, inequality and wellbeing. Current research includes projects on measuring ultrapoverty, corruption, aspirations, subjective wellbeing, mobility, service delivery, robustness of multidimensional measures, and education quality.

Christopher Flinn is Professor of Economics at New York University, a Senior Research Fellow at the Collegio Carlo Alberto (Moncalieri, Italy), and is an Associate Editor of the International Economic Review, European Economic Review, and Review of Economics of the Household. He is a Research Affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Research Fellow of IZA (Bonn), a member of the Scientific Committee of CHILD at the University of Torino, and served as the President of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE) in 2004.

Raquel Fernández is a Professor in the Department of Economics at NYU. She is also a member of ESOP at the University of Oslo, the NBER, the CEPR, and IZA. She has previously been a tenured professor at the London School of Economics and Boston University and held visiting positions at various institutions around the world. She has served as the Director of the Public Policy Program of the CEPR and has been a Panel Member of the National Science Foundation and a Program Committee Member of the Social Science Research Council.

Ernst Fehr has been Professor of Microeconomics and Experimental Economics at the University of Zürich since 1994.

Armin Falk is Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Bonn and director of briq, the Institute on Behavior and Inequality.  He is affiliated with several networks: He is Program Director at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy (CEPR), Fellow at the Center for Economic Studies (CESifo) and Research Professor at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). Falk's research generally aims at increasing the explanatory power of economics by providing it with a more realistic psychological and biological foundation.

Daniel Epstein is the Director of Government Relations for Learning Care Group, a leading private provider of early childhood education. Before joining the early childhood education community, Epstein worked in the British House of Commons, the U.S. House of Representatives, the Illinois Department of Employment Security, and at a global business best practices research firm. He also helped found and operate two education focused non-profit organizations.

Dennis Epple is Thomas Lord University Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University. He has a Master of Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School and a PhD in Economics from Princeton University. His research focuses on the political economy of state and local governments, household life cycle location choices, the economics of education, and learning by doing.

Philipp Eisenhauer is an economist studying risk and ambiguity in economic models. He is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Bonn's Institute for Applied Microeconomics, working with Armin Falk. He was previously a Postdoctoral Scholar at The University of Chicago, a doctoral researcher at the University of Mannheim (Chair of Prof. Franz), and part of the ZEW Leibniz research network on noncognitive skills. He studied Economics at the University of Mannheim and Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels.

Lena Edlund is an Associate Professor of Economics at Columbia University. Edlund’s research focuses on the economics of gender and family, interests that have also led her to evolutionary biology and life-history analysis. Her past research has analyzed the impact of marriage and partner market conditions on sex allocation, with a particular focus on the status of females.

Professor Zvi Eckstein is the Dean of the School of Economics at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzelia and visiting professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as Deputy Governor of the Bank of Israel from 2006 to 2011. Eckstein gave the Walras-Bowley lecture at the Econometric Society Summer 2008 meetings and he is a fellow of the Econometric Society.  He was an Assistant Professor at Yale University, 1980-1983. Eckstein worked at Tel-Aviv University from 1983 - 2012, and took early retirement at 2012 as Professor of Economics.