Keynote Speakers
Keynote speakers
Professor Jens Ludwig
The University of Chicago
Jens Ludwig is the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, Pritzker director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab and co-director of the University of Chicago Education Lab, which he helped found 15 years ago to work closely with the public sector to help solve social problems.
His work is increasingly focused on the use of algorithms and AI to improve human decision-making and has been published in leading economics journals such as the American Economic Review and Quarterly Journal of Economics. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.
John Bailey Jones
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
John Bailey Jones is vice president of microeconomic analysis in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. He joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond as a senior economist and research advisor in September 2016 after serving as a consultant to the Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Before joining the Richmond Fed, he taught economics at the University of Albany, SUNY. John earned his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998.
John's principal research areas are applied macroeconomics and structural econometrics. His research interests include life-cycle consumption and labor supply, health economics, dynamic investment decisions, and fiscal policy.