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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
Justin Castro
Editorial Intern
Molly Dektar
Director of Editorial and Communications
Jack Gross
Research Writer and Editor
Research
Arden Ali
Lead Researcher on Digital Ethics and Governance
Sidhya Balakrishnan
Director of Research
Laura Beamer
Lead Researcher, Higher Education Finance
Marcella Cartledge
Research Associate
Jerome Hodges
Chief Research Officer
Paul Katz
VP of Special Projects
Jack Landry
Research Associate, Guaranteed Income
Eduard (Eddie) Nilaj
Data Science Research Associate
Stephen Nuñez
Lead Researcher on Guaranteed Income
Claudia Sahm
Director, Macroeconomic Research
Francis Tseng
Lead Independent Researcher
Research Fellows
Jonathan Calenzani
Fellow, Social Wealth Portfolio
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
Paulo Mann
Fellow, Social Wealth Portfolio
Nataliya Nedzhvetskaya
External Fellow, Collective Action
Liza Paudel
Fellow, Digital Ethics & Governance
Milo Phillips-Brown
Fellow, Digital Ethics & Governance
Sérgio Pinto
Fellow, Higher Education Finance
Sara Restrepo Tamayo
Quantitative Social Science Research Fellow
Patrick Robbins
Fellow, Special Projects
Melody Rowell
External Fellow, Strict Scrutiny podcast
Friederike Schuur
Fellow, AI Ethics and Digital Governance
Marshall Steinbaum
Senior Fellow, Higher Education Finance
Paul Williams
Fellow, Guaranteed Income
Jason Windawi
Fellow, Social Wealth Portfolio
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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