Gretchen Chapman

Professor in Social & Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University

Gretchen Chapman has been a Professor in Social & Decision Sciences since 2017. Prior to joining the faculty at CMU in 2017, Dr. Chapman was a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University where she served as Department Chair of Psychology and r Acting Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Science.  .

Philip Tetlock

Annenberg University Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Annenberg University Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Philip Tetlock  is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, and the author of three books: Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?; (with Aaron Belkin) Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics; and (with Dan Gardner) Superforecasting: The Art & Science of Prediction (2015).

Magali Delmas

Professor of Management

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA

Magali Delmas is the director of the UCLA Center for Corporate Environmental Performance. She is also the President of the Alliance for Research in Corporate Sustainability (ARCS), an organization that serves as a vehicle for advancing rigorous academic research on corporate sustainability issues. 

Her research interests are primarily in the areas of Business strategy and Corporate Sustainability.

Tom Tyler

Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology and Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory, Yale University

Professor Tyler’s research explores the role of justice in shaping people’s relationships with groups, organizations, communities, and societies. In particular, he examines the role of judgments about the justice or injustice of group procedures in shaping legitimacy, compliance, and cooperation. He is the author of several books, including Why People Cooperate (2011) and Legitimacy and Criminal Justice (2007).

Jennifer Jennings

Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs,

Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

Jennifer Jennings is a sociologist who studies racial, socioeconomic, and gender disparities in educational and health outcomes. Her dissertation examined how government accountability systems that evaluate schools based on student outcomes affect educational inequality. By making use of audit measures for which schools are not held accountable, she evaluates these systems’ effects on a broader set of outcomes, as well as our perceptions of racial, gender, and socioeconomic inequality. 

Bill Adair

Knight Professor of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University and the creator of PolitiFact

Bill Adair is the Knight Professor of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University and the creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact. At Duke, he heads the journalism program as the Director of the DeWitt Wallace Center and conducts research on fact-checking in the Reporters’ Lab. His awards include the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (with the PolitiFact staff), the Manship Prize for New Media in Democratic Discourse and the Everett Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress.

David Rand

Associate Professor of Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT Sloan

Bridging the fields of behavioral economics and psychology, David’s research combines mathematical/computational models with human behavioral experiments and online/field studies to understand human behavior. His work uses a cognitive science perspective grounded in the tension between more intuitive versus deliberative modes of decision-making, and explores topics such as cooperation/prosociality, punishment/condemnation, perceived accuracy of false or misleading news stories, political preferences, and the dynamics of social media platform behavior. 

Duncan Watts

Principal researcher and partner at Microsoft, and a founding member of the MSR NYC lab 

Prior to joining Microsoft in 2012, he was from 2000 to 2007 a professor of sociology at Columbia University, and then a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research. Watts’s research on social networks and collective dynamics has appeared in a wide range of journals and he is also the author of three books: Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (W.W. Norton, 2003), Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness (Princeton University Press, 1999), and most recently, Everything Is Obvious: Once You Know The Answer (Crown Business, 2011). 

Rebecca Blumenstein

Deputy Managing Editor, The New York Times

Rebecca Blumenstein has been deputy managing editor of The New York Times since February 2017, where she focuses on making sure The Times remains an essential destination for readers interested in business, finance, economics and technology. Previously, she was deputy editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal.

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In 2003, she was part of a team that won the Gerald Loeb Award for deadline writing for coverage of WorldCom. She oversaw the China team that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2007, and was named to the Aspen Institute's Henry Crown Fellowship for 2009.”

Rekha Balu

Fellow with the U.S. Office of Evaluation Sciences &  Director of the Center for Applied Behavioral Science at MDRC 

As a Senior Research Associate, Balu has led numerous randomized field trials of behaviorally informed interventions in education, parenting, and child welfare-- often in partnership with education and social service providers. Her research focuses on supporting low-income youth and families to enroll and participate in school and social programs. She has designed interventions that help governments or social programs simplify their programs and promote continued family engagement and resident-state interaction. She also has designed and tested multiple technology-driven interventions including mobile phone applications, web-based decision-making tools, and text-message and email-based information campaigns.