Who We Are
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
Jeffrey T. Macher, Academic Director
Senior Policy Scholars
T. Christopher Borek
Intellectual Property Rights; Media Markets
Carol Corrado
Economics of Growth and Innovation; Fiscal and Monetary Policies
Robin Dillon-Merrill
Cybersecurity
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
Nathan Miller
Industrial Organization; Finance
Ferdinando Monte
International Economics; Firm Organization; Economic Geography
Charly Porcher
Urban Economics
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
Associate Professors
Tim DeStefano
Digital Technology; Artificial Intelligence (AI); Policy Environments; Technology Diffusion
Visiting Senior Policy Scholars
Anna-Maria Kovacs
Telecommunications; Industry Analysis; Public Policy and Investment
Robert Litan
Regulation; Antitrust; Finance
Senior Industry and Innovation Fellows
Kathleen Abernathy
Energy Regulation; Internet Policy; Technology and Innovation Policy; Telecom; Regulation
Carolyn Brandon
Telecom; Technology and Innovation Policy; Regulation; Internet Policy; Antitrust and Competition
Ralph B. Everett
Broadband Regulation
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
Hannah Burdette, Research Assistant
Robert Press, Postdoctoral Fellow
Staff
Denise Lisi DeRosa, Communications Director