Carl Davidson is the University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University. His main research interests are International trade and labor market outcomes, Models of unemployment, and Collusive behavior, horizontal mergers. He was co-editor of the World Economy and Associate editor of the European Economic Review.

Steven Davis is the William H. Abbott Distinguished Service Professor of International Business and Economics at the University of Chicago. Professor. Davis studies business dynamics, hiring practices, job loss, the effects of economic uncertainty and other topics. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, senior academic fellow with the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research, advisor to the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, senior adviser to the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, and past editor of the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.

Sir Angus Stewart Deaton is a Senior Scholar and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University. His main current research areas are in poverty, inequality, health, well being, economic development, and randomized controlled trials. He is the recipient of the 2015 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.  He is a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the first recipient of the Society's Frisch Medal, and has been awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award. He is an elected a member of the American Philosophical Society  and of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2016, he was made a Knight Bachelor for his services to Economics and International affairs. He is a past President of the American Economic Association. 

Steven Durlauf is the Steans Professor in Educational Policy at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.  Professor Durlauf's research spans many topics in microeconomics and macroeconomics. His most important substantive contributions involve the areas of poverty, inequality and economic growth. Much of his research has attempted to integrate sociological ideas into economic analysis. His major methodological contributions include both economic theory and econometrics. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011. Professor Durlauf is the current Editor of the Journal of Economic Literature 

William Easterly is a Professor of Economics at New York University and Co-director of the NYU Development Research Institute, which won the 2009 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge in Development Cooperation Award. He has served as Co-Editor of the Journal of Development Economics and as Director of the blog Aid Watch. He is a Research Associate of NBER, and senior fellow at BREAD. Foreign Policy Magazine named him among the Top 100 Global Public Intellectuals in 2008 and 2009, and Thomson Reuters listed him as one of Highly Cited Researchers of 2014. He is also the 11th most famous native of Bowling Green, Ohio. 

Robert Engle is the Michael Armellino Professor of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business. He was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics for his research on the concept of autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH). He developed this method for statistical modeling of time-varying volatility and demonstrated that these techniques accurately capture the properties of many time series. Professor Engle is an expert in time series analysis with a long-standing interest in the analysis of financial markets. His ARCH model and its generalizations have become indispensable tools not only for researchers, but also for analysts of financial markets, who use them in asset pricing and in evaluating portfolio risk. His research has also produced such innovative statistical methods as cointegration, common features, autoregressive conditional duration (ACD), CAViaR and now dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) models. He is currently the Co-Director of the NYU Stern Volatility and Risk Institute and is the Co-Founding President of the Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE). 

Jianqing Fan is a statistician, financial econometrician, and data scientist. He is Frederick L. Moore '18 Professor of Finance, Professor of Statistics, and Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. Professor Fan research interests are in statistical theory and methods in data science, statistical machine learning , finance, economics, computational biology, and biostatistics. He is the winner of The 2000 COPSS Presidents' Award, Morningside Gold Medal for Applied Mathematics (2007), Guggenheim Fellow (2009), Pao-Lu Hsu Prize (2013) and Guy Medal in Silver (2014). He got elected to Academician from Academia Sinica in 2012.  Professor Fan is a joint editor of Journal of Business and Economics Statistics and an associate editor of Management Science. He was the co-editor (-in-chief) of the Annals of Statistics, and editor of Probability Theory and Related Fields, Econometrics Journal, and Journal of Econometrics. He was on the editorial boards of a number of other journals.

Guido Imbens is the Applied Econometrics Professor and Professor of Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.  Professor Imbens does research in econometrics and statistics. His research focuses on developing methods for drawing causal inferences in observational studies, using matching, instrumental variables, and regression discontinuity designs. He is currently  Associate Editor for Econometrica, and has served as  Foreign Editor for the Review of Economic Studies, and Associate Editor for the Journal of Econometrics and Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.

Charles I. Jones is the STANCO 25 Professor of Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.  He is an economist noted for his research on long-run economic growth. In particular, he has examined theoretically and empirically the fundamental sources of growth in incomes over time and the reasons underlying the enormous differences in standards of living across countries. In recent years, he has used his expertise in macroeconomic methods to study the economic causes behind the rise in health spending and top income inequality. Professor Jones has been honored as a National Fellow of the Hoover Institution, a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow. His research has been supported by a series of grants from the National Science Foundation.

Iain McLean is a Professor of Politics, Director of the Gwilym Gibbon Centre for Public Policy and Official Fellow at Nuffield College. Professor McLean’s research interests are in UK public policy; devolution, including related issues in taxation and public expenditure such as the Barnett Formula; electoral systems; constitutional reform; the roles of church and state; the history of the Union of the United Kingdom since 1707; and disasters and government responses to them, especially the Aberfan disaster of 1966. He has advised the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. He was a consultant to the Jenkins Commission on voting systems for the House of Commons, and to various local authorities on the Boundary Commission for England's review of parliamentary boundaries.