Six Affiliates Take Leave for Public Service
NBER affiliates Anusha Chari, Matthew Kraft, and Laura Wherry are currently serving as senior economists at the Council of Economic Advisers. Chari, affiliated with the International Finance and Macroeconomics program, is a Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Kraft, an Economics of Education program affiliate, is an Associate Professor of Education at Brown University. Wherry, affiliated with the Economics of Health program, is an Associate Professor at New York University’s Graduate School of Public Service.
Three other affiliates have also taken policy roles. Nathan H. Miller, affiliated with the Industrial Organization program, is serving as the Chief Economist of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. He is a Professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and Economics Department. Ivan Rudik, an Environment and Energy Economics program affiliate and an Associate Professor at Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business, is the Chief Environmental Economist of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. John Van Reenen, who holds the Ronald Coase Chair at the London School of Economics and is an affiliate of the Labor Studies and Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship programs, has been tapped to Chair the Council of Economic Advisors to the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer.
All of these researchers will be on leave from the NBER for the duration of their public service.