University College London School of Management
Angela Aristidou
Professor of Economics | AI Adoption: Opportunities and Challenges for Small and Medium Enterprises
AI and economy researchers
Meet our inaugural cohort of global economic scholars. Each member of this distinguished network of researchers receives $100,000 in unrestricted funding, dedicated compute resources, and early access to frontier AI to lead independent inquiries into the transformative impacts of artificial intelligence on labor markets and organizational productivity, as well as diverse outcomes across sectors and economies.
London School of Economics
Xavier Jaravel
Professor of Economics | Innovation, inflation, inequality
Columbia University
Daniel Bjorkegren
Assistant Professor | AI for Science and in Low Income Countries
UC Santa Barbara
Matt Beane
Associate Professor | Measuring How Workers Delegate to AI Across Occupations
Carnegie Mellon Unviersity
Avinash (Avi) Collis
Assistant Professor | Welfare effects of generative AI technologies
Stanford University Digital Economy Lab
David Nguyen
Research Scientist | Digital economics, economic measurement, consumer welfare
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Brian Jabarian
Assistant Professor | Designing end-to-end agentic AI hiring systems by orchestrating, signal elicitation, evaluation and decision making
Carnegie Mellon University
Christophe Combemale
Assistant Research Professor | Economic vs. Technical Feasability in AI Diffusion