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About Us
JFI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit applied research organization founded in 2014 by Bob Jain. Our mission is to address pressing social problems by identifying and building high-impact interventions that translate to real world progress. A nonpartisan organization, JFI’s expertise is in bringing global research and policy from theory to practice, with an emphasis on pilots and implementation.
Board
Strategy and Operations
Alexander Jacobs
Chief Operating Officer
Klea Kalia
Operations Associate
Bakari Sibert
Associate, Strategy and Operations
Editorial and Communications
Maya Adereth
Editorial Fellow
Halah Ahmad
VP, PR & Policy Communications
Tim Barker
Editorial Fellow, Phenomenal World
Sanoja Bhaumik
Editorial Associate
Molly Dektar
Director of Editorial and Communications
Emma Fajgenbaum
Editorial Fellow, Phenomenal World
Jack Gross
Research Writer and Editor
Elham Saeidinezhad
Fellow, Market Structure
Research
Arden Ali
Lead Researcher on Digital Ethics and Governance
Sidhya Balakrishnan
Director of Research
Laura Beamer
Lead Researcher, Higher Education Finance
Roberta Costa
Research Manager
Jerome Hodges
Chief Research Officer
Paul Katz
VP and Lead Researcher, Social Wealth
Jack Landry
Research Associate, Guaranteed Income
Eduard (Eddie) Nilaj
Data Science Research Associate
Stephen Nuñez
Lead Researcher on Guaranteed Income
Francis Tseng
Lead Independent Researcher
Research Fellows
Ege Aksu
Fellow, Empirical Research
Adriel Araujo
Fellow, Social Wealth Portfolio
Jonathan Calenzani
Fellow-in-Residence, Social Wealth
Marcella Cartledge
Fellow
Rajarshi Datta
Analyst, Macroeconomic Research
Thaís Donega
Fellow, Social Wealth Portfolio
David Gray Grant
Senior Fellow, Digital Ethics & Governance
Leah Hamilton
Senior Fellow, Guaranteed Income
Johannes Haushofer
Senior Fellow, Guaranteed Income
Lily Hu
Senior Fellow, Digital Ethics & Governance
Greg Keenan
Fellow, Digital Ethics & Governance
Liza Paudel
Fellow, Digital Ethics & Governance
Milo Phillips-Brown
Fellow, Digital Ethics & Governance
Sérgio Pinto
Fellow, Higher Education Finance
Patrick Robbins
Fellow, Special Projects
Friederike Schuur
Fellow, AI Ethics and Digital Governance
Marshall Steinbaum
Senior Fellow, Higher Education Finance
Gernot Wagner
Senior Fellow, Climate
Jason Windawi
Fellow, Social Wealth Portfolio
Yunjie Xie
Fellow, Empirical Research
Affiliate Researchers
Raphael E. Cuomo, PhD
Affiliate Researcher
Daniel Enemark, PhD
Affiliate Researcher
Brendan Florez
Affiliate Researcher
Georgia Kovacs, PhD
Affiliate Researcher
Josh Shapiro, PhD
Affiliate Researcher
Brooke Valle
Affiliate Researcher
Douglas A. Webber, PhD
Affiliate Researcher
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