Anna Harvey is President of the Social Science Research Council; Professor of Politics, Affiliated Professor of Data Science and Law, and Director of the Public Safety Lab at New York University; and Co-Director of the Criminal Justice Expert Panel. The Public Safety Lab works with teams of social scientists and data scientists to support more effective and equitable criminal justice practices. Its projects include the Jail Data Initiative, a large-scale effort to collect and report daily individual-level jail records in over 1,300 county jails in the United States, and the Prosecutorial Reform Initiative, a collaborative effort with district attorney’s offices to develop more effective and equitable prosecutorial policies. Professor Harvey is the author of two scholarly books and a co-authored casebook on judicial decisionmaking, in addition to numerous peer-reviewed articles.

Anna Harvey

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Stuart Buck is senior advisor at the Social Science Research Council and executive director of the Good Science Project. As a vice president at Arnold Ventures for nine years, Stuart Buck funded renowned work showing that scientific research is often irreproducible. His work has been featured in Wired, the Economist, the New York Times, and the Atlantic, among many others. He has advised the GAO on how to improve federally funded research, consulted the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to design a conference on reproducibility, advised the John Oliver show on an episode about scientific reproducibility, and lectured at DARPA and IARPA. He has a PhD in education policy from the University of Arkansas, a law degree with honors from Harvard Law School, and bachelor's and master's degrees in music from the University of Georgia.

Stuart Buck

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Fay Lomax Cook is professor emerita of human development and social policy in Northwestern’s School of Education and Social Policy and an Institute for Policy Research faculty fellow emerita. From 2014–18, Lomax Cook served as Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and headed the Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences. While at NSF, she served as co-chair for the White House National Science and Technology Council's interagency Social and Behavioral Sciences Subcommittee of the Committee on Science and as co-chair of the federal interagency committee to assess research needs related to the nation’s opioid crisis. Currently, she serves as Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the National Academy for Social Insurance (NASI) in Washington, D.C., where she is also an elected fellow. At NASI, she is working on understanding the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on social insurance programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment Insurance, and Workers Compensation and what the possible policy responses might be to those effects. She holds a PhD in Social Policy from the University of Chicago.

Harold Kim has been based in Hong Kong for the past 27 years where he manages an investment advisory firm that uses innovations in financial engineering to improve investment performance. Previously, Dr Kim served as managing director and head of the investor derivatives business for Citi Global Markets Asia. Kim originally started at Salomon Brothers (a predecessor of Citi) in 1993 and worked in a number of capacities over the course of his twenty-year career with Citi in both Hong Kong and New York. Prior to joining Salomon, he was a lecturer at Princeton University; he also taught for many years as an adjunct professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and he currently serves as the board chair for Hong Kong International School. Kim earned his B.A. in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.

Craig Newmark is a philanthropist who gets stuff done. Most commonly known for founding the online classified ads service craigslist, Newmark creates and funds networks that work to protect the country and to help people out. This includes building networks to help protect the country in the cybersecurity world, defending against disinformation warfare, and fighting online harassment; support for ethical and trustworthy journalism, particularly in underserved communities; support for veterans and military families; support for groups feeding the hungry; and support for organizations advancing women in tech and media. Newmark has not run craigslist since 2000. He retired at the end of 2018. Born in Morristown, New Jersey, Newmark holds degrees in computer science from Case Western Reserve University.

Tim O’Reilly has a history of convening conversations that reshape the computer industry. He's played a key role in framing and evangelizing terms such as “open source software” “web 2.0” “the Maker movement” and “government as a platform”. He is the founder, CEO, and Chairman of O’Reilly Media, and a partner at early stage venture firm O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV). He is also on the boards of Code for America, PeerJ, Civis Analytics, and PopVox. His book, WTF: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us, explores what technology advances teach us about the future economy and government as its “platform.” He is a Visiting Professor of Practice at University College London’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, where he is researching a new approach to regulating big technology platforms by limiting their ability to extract economic rents.

Philip Zecher is the Chief Investment Officer for Michigan State University, overseeing its $4.2 billion endowment. Zecher was tapped to start MSU’s investment office in 2016 and under his leadership the endowment has risen to one of the top performing university endowments, leading him to be named one of the top 30 endowment CIOs by Trusted Insight magazine in 2020. Before starting MSU’s investment office, Zecher was Partner and Chief Risk Officer of the currency hedge fund, EQA Partners. Prior to joining EQA, Zecher was the co-founder in 1999 of Investor Analytics, a New York City based risk advisory firm focused on the hedge fund and fund-of-funds industry. Investor Analytics was the first risk advisory firm to provide risk analytics as software-as-a-service via the internet. Zecher has served as a company director in the US and Ireland and as a member of several non-profit boards, including the MSU Foundation, before being named MSU’s CIO. He is currently a member of the investment committee for the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities. In 2015, Zecher was professor of finance at the Broad College of Business at MSU. He received his Ph.D. in nuclear physics from MSU.

Philip Zecher

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Tony Sheldon has been executive director of Yale School of Management's Program on Social Enterprise and lecturer in the practice of management since 2008. He teaches practicum courses on social entrepreneurship, in which student teams work with organizations in India, Brazil, and Kenya, as well as a course on social “intra-preneuship” in the Executive MBA program. Tony’s professional background is in international development. He has worked with microfinance institutions in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, primarily in the areas of business planning, financial modeling, and social performance management. Tony has also been a consultant to several development finance networks and funders, including the Ford Foundation, the World Bank, the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), ShoreBank International, and Women's World Banking. Tony holds degrees from Princeton University and the Yale School of Management.

Tony Sheldon

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