Principal Investigators
Dr. Nathan Lane
Associate Professor, Economics
University of Oxford
Prior to Oxford, Dr. Lane was an economics professor at Monash University, where he cofounded SodaLabs.io. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a fellow of the Roosevelt Institute, and an affiliate of CESifo.
Board of Advisors
Nancy Gallini
Professor Emeritus
Vancouver School of Economics
The University of British Columbia
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Ann E. Harrison
Dean and Bank of America Chair
Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley
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Dani Rodrik
Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
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Research Team
Verónica Pérez
Lab Manager/Co-Author
PhD Student in Economics at Boston University. Previously, she was a Predoctoral Fellow at Columbia University, and a Graduate Research Assistant at Universidad de los Andes, where she earned her BSc and MA in economics.
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Max Marczinek
PhD Student/Co-Author
PhD student in Economics at the University of Oxford, working on Trade, Development, and Economic History
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Esha Vaze
Predoctoral Researcher
Esha is a full-time predoctoral researcher for the Industrial Policy Group. She has a BA in International Economics from the University of British Columbia.
Akshat Kumar
Research Assistant
Akshat is a 4th-year Economics Honours undergraduate at the University of British Columbia. He is interested in topics of International Trade and Immigration.
Lily (Rui-Ning) Ren
Research Assistant
Lily is a third-year Honours Economics undergraduate at the University of British Columbia. She is interested in International Trade and Development Economics.
Yuxuan Wu
PhD Student
Yuxuan is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on industrial policy, trade, and labor economics.
Dilan Yang
DPhil Student/Co-Author
Dilan (also goes by Kristen) is a DPhil student in Economics at Oxford. She holds a BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge, a Masters in Global Affairs from Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University, China and an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford.
Lottie Field
Predoctoral Researcher
Lottie is a full-time predoctoral researcher for the Industrial Policy Group. She investigates industrial policy using messy data. She has an MSc in Economics for Development and a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford.
Nathaniel Hope Tucker
Predoctoral Researcher
Nathaniel is a full-time predoctoral researcher with the Industrial Policy Group. His research focuses on topics in historical and environmental economics, with a particular emphasis on spatial econometric methods. He holds an MA in Economics from the University of British Columbia and a BSc in Economics from the University of Victoria.
Aswin Chansrichawla
Research Assistant
Aswin (also goes by Gian) is an MPhil student in Economic and Social History at the University of Oxford. He holds a BA in International Development from King's College London. His primary research interests are industrial policy and economic development in Thailand.
Avinno Faruk
Graduate Research Assistant
Avinno holds an MS in Economics and Computational Science (MSEC) from Duke University. Prior to that, she worked for 3 years in the data-driven policy space.
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Emily Oehlsen
PhD Student/Co-Author
PhD Student in Economics at the University of Oxford and Senior Program Officer at Open Philanthropy. Previously, she worked at DeepMind, Uber, and TGG Group. She has a BSFS in International Political Economy from Georgetown University and an MPhil in Economics from Oxford.
Pablo Valenzuela C
PhD Student
Pablo is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at The University of British Columbia. He is interested in urban economics and its intersection with race and immigration. He holds a BA in business and economics and MA in economics from PUC-Chile.
Hannah Yi Wei
IMF Economist
Hannah is an economist at the IMF, having previously worked as a consultant for the World Bank. Her research focuses on Trade, Industrial Policy, and Innovation Economics. She holds a DPhil and MPhil in Economics from Oxford University.
Giulia Lo Forte
Economist/Co-Author
Giulia is an Economist in the International Finance division of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. She studies how globalization affects competition and innovation. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of British Columbia, and MSc and BSc degrees in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University.
Mikhael Gaster
Research Assistant
Mikhael [mi: kaI: jɛl] holds a MA in Economics and a BA in Economics & Mathematics from the University of British Columbia. He also works as a Data Science Research Fellow at the Jain Family Institute.
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Saumya Joshi
Research Assistant
PhD student in Food and Resource Economics, University of British Columbia, working on land markets and structural transformation in developing countries.