Our Team
JFI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit applied research organization founded in 2014 by Bob Jain.
Our team of staff and fellows includes experts and academics from the fields of economics, data analysis, financial modeling, political economy, and policy, among others.
BOARD
STRATEGY AND OPERATIONS
Alexander Jacobs
Klea Kalia
Associate
EDITORIAL AND COMMUNICATIONS
Maya Adereth
Deputy Editor
Tim Barker
Contributing Editor
Josue Chavez
Publishing and Operations Associate
Sanoja Bhaumik
Managing Editor
Molly Dektar
Director
Andrew Elrod
Associate Editor
Emma Fajgenbaum
Senior Editor
Hugo Fanton
Editor
Camilo Andrés Garzón
Editor
Jack Gross
Research Writer and Editor
Tenaya Nasser-Frederick
Assistant Editor
Elham Saeidinezhad
Fellow, Market Structure
Maria Fernanda Sikorski
Editor
RESEARCH
Arden Ali
Lead Researcher
Eduard Nilaj
Data Science Research Associate
Francis Tseng
Lead Independent Researcher
Jack Landry
Research Associate
Jerome Hodges
Jonah Allen
Research Associate
Laura Beamer
Lead Researcher
Paul Katz
VP and Lead Researcher
Roberta Costa
Research Manager
Sidhya Balakrishnan
Director of Research
Sina Sinai
Research Associate
RESEARCH FELLOWS
Adriel Araujo
Fellow
Ege Aksu
Fellow
Jonathan Calenzani
Fellow
Marcella Cartledge
Fellow
Thaís Donega
Fellow
Yakov Feygin
Fellow
Sara Franklin
Fellow
Leah Hamilton
Senior Fellow
Johannes Haushofer
Senior Fellow
Sérgio Pinto
Fellow
Marshall Steinbaum
Senior Fellow
AFFILIATE AND EMERGING INITIATIVES
Adi Rao
Fellow
Anna Hope Emerson
Fellow
Lexin Cai
Fellow
Mikhael Gaster
Fellow
Sarah Kreps
Senior Fellow
Natalie Leonard
Fellow
Pauline Leung
Senior Fellow
Nolan Lindquist
Executive Director
Zhuan Pei
Senior Fellow
FELLOWS EMERITI
David Gray Grant
Senior Fellow Emeritus
Lily Hu
Senior Fellow Emeritus
Greg Keenan
Fellow Emeritus
Milo Phillips-Brown
Senior Fellow Emeritus
Théophile Pouget-Abadie
Fellow Emeritus
Friederike Schuur
Fellow Emeritus
OPEN POSITIONS
The Jain Family Institute has frequent openings for research fellowships. We share new opportunities in Sources, Phenomenal World’s weekly letter. If you feel an affinity for our work and have a strong background or interest in higher education finance, digital ethics, guaranteed income, or, more broadly, economics, policy, finance, and the social sciences, please contact us, even if there is no specific job listing active. Send your CV and a few paragraphs about your background and interest to us at opportunities@jainfamilyinstitute.org.
JFI fellowship funding is for the benefit of fellows and does not cover indirect or overhead costs, if any, at third party institutions.