Who We Are

CBPP Crew
US/EU Dialogue Series

The Center for Business and Public Policy brings together an interdisciplinary group of leading faculty, scholars, and industry experts from across the nation and around the world whose expertise, intellectual pursuits, and interests are in the areas of competition and innovation. These outstanding individuals advance the center’s mission and engage others in relevant inquiries and exploration of critical issues at the intersection of business economics and public policy.

Center Leadership

John W. Mayo, Founder and Executive Director

Senior Policy Scholars

T. Christopher Borek
Intellectual Property Rights; Media Markets

Jasmina Chauvin
Firm Location Strategy, Corporate Strategy, Emerging Markets

Carol Corrado
Economics of Growth and Innovation; Fiscal and Monetary Policies 

Tim DeStefano
Digital Technology; Artificial Intelligence (AI); Policy Environments; Technology Diffusion

Robin Dillon-Merrill
Near-Miss Incident Management

Antonio Fatás
Fiscal and Monetary Policies, Business Cycles; The European Monetary Union

Rahul Gupta
Economic Geography; Economics of Innovation

Robert Hahn
Law and Economics; Regulation, Antitrust

J. Bradford Jensen
International Business; International Trade and Investment; Impact of Trade in Services

Yunan Ji
Health Policy and Economics

Lizhi Liu
Political Economy of Development; Digital Economy; Emerging Markets

Mark MacCarthy
Technology Law and Policy; Data Privacy

Jeffrey T. Macher, Regulation, Competitive and Nonmarket Strategy, Economics of Technology and Innovation

Nathan Miller
Industrial Organization; Finance

Ferdinando Monte
International Economics; Firm Organization; Economic Geography

Charly Porcher
Urban Economics

Anita Rao
Empirical Marketing

Robert J. Shapiro
Economics of Growth and Innovation; Globalization; Fiscal and Monetary Policies 

Catherine H. Tinsley
Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty; Women and Negotiation; Culture, Conflict Resolution

Olga Ukhaneva
Telecommunications

Scott Wallsten
Industrial Organization and Public Policy; Telecommunications Regulation 

Stephen Weymouth 
International Political Economy; Distributional Consequences of Globalization

Glenn Woroch
Telecommunications; Industrial Organization; Regulation 

Senior Policy Fellows

Mark Whitener
Antitrust Law; Competition Policy

Visiting Senior Policy Scholars

Robert Litan
Regulation; Antitrust; Finance

Senior Industry and Innovation Fellows

Carolyn Brandon
Telecom; Technology and Innovation Policy; Regulation; Internet Policy; Antitrust and Competition

Mark L. Burton
Transportation; Telecom; Regional Economics

Jennifer Fritzsche
Telecom

Marcia Brown Mintz
Higher Education

Faculty Affiliates

Dennis Quinn (Ph.D., Political Science, Columbia University) 

Pietra Rivoli (Ph.D., Finance and International Economics, University of Florida)

Edward Soule (Ph.D., Philosophy, Washington University)

Leonard Waverman (Ph.D., Economics, MIT) 

Center Researchers

Tsolmon Otgon, Research Assistant

Robert Press, Postdoctoral Fellow

Katie Wilson, Research Assistant

Staff

Caroline Warren, Assistant Director

Distinguished Student Fellows

Sharon Huang (SFS’26)