Our Team

JFI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit applied research organization founded in 2014 by Bob Jain.

Our team of staff and fellows includes experts and academics from the fields of economics, data analysis, financial modeling, political economy, and policy, among others.

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BOARD

Founder, Chairman

Bob Jain

Trustee

Carola Jain

Trustee and Chief Executive Officer

Michael Stynes

STRATEGY AND OPERATIONS

Chief Operating Officer

Alexander Jacobs

Strategy and Operations

Bakari Sibert

Associate

Strategy and Operations

Klea Kalia

Associate

EDITORIAL AND COMMUNICATIONS

Phenomenal World

Elham Saeidinezhad

Fellow, Market Structure

Phenomenal World

Emma Fajgenbaum

Senior Editor

Editorial and Communications

Halah Ahmad

Vice President, Lead Researcher for Policy

Phenomenal World

Jack Gross

Editor

Phenomenal World

Maya Adereth

Deputy Editor

Editorial and Communications

Molly Dektar

Director

Phenomenal World

Ratik Asokan

Fellow, Associate Editor

Phenomenal World

Sanoja Bhaumik

Managing Editor

Phenomenal World

Tim Barker

Contributing Editor

RESEARCH

Digital Ethics and Governance

Arden Ali

Lead Researcher

Higher Education Finance

Eduard Nilaj

Data Science Research Associate

Special Projects

Francis Tseng

Lead Independent Researcher

Guaranteed Income

Jack Landry

Research Associate

Chief Research Officer

Jerome Hodges

Higher Education Finance

Laura Beamer

Lead Researcher

Social Wealth

Paul Katz

VP and Lead Researcher

Empirical and Field Research

Roberta Costa

Research Manager

Empirical and Field Research

Sidhya Balakrishnan

Director of Research

RESEARCH FELLOWS

Social Wealth

Adriel Araujo

Fellow

Digital Ethics and Governance

David Gray Grant

Senior Fellow

Empirical and Field Research

Ege Aksu

Fellow

Digital Ethics and Governance

Greg Keenan

Fellow

Social Wealth

Jason Windawi

Fellow

Empirical and Field Research

Johannes Haushofer

Senior Fellow

Social Wealth

Jonathan Calenzani

Fellow

Guaranteed Income

Leah Hamilton

Senior Fellow

Digital Ethics and Governance

Lily Hu

Senior Fellow

Empirical and Field Research

Marcella Cartledge

Fellow

Higher Education Finance

Marshall Steinbaum

Senior Fellow

Digital Ethics and Governance

Milo Phillips-Brown

Fellow

Macroeconomic Research

Rajarshi Datta

Fellow

Higher Education Finance

Sérgio Pinto

Fellow

Social Wealth

Sina Sinai

Fellow

Social Wealth

Thaís Donega

Fellow

Empirical and Field Research

Yunjie Xie

Fellow

AFFILIATE AND EMERGING INITIATIVES

JFI-Brooks School Fellowship

Lexin Cai

Fellow

Center for Active Stewardship

Anna Hope Emerson

Fellow

AI for the Public Good

Friederike Schuur

Fellow

Climate

Gernot Wagner

Senior Fellow

Decarbonization of the EU

Jonah Allen

Fellow

Center for Active Stewardship

Mikhael Gaster

Fellow

JFI-Brooks School Fellowship

Pauline Leung

Fellow

Center for Active Stewardship

Nolan Lindquist

Executive Director

JFI-Brooks School Fellowship

Zhuan Pei

Fellow

Decarbonization of the EU

Théophile Pouget-Abadie

Fellow

OPEN POSITIONS

The Jain Family Institute has frequent openings for research fellowships. We share new opportunities in Sources, Phenomenal World’s weekly letter. If you feel an affinity for our work and have a strong background or interest in higher education finance, digital ethics, guaranteed income, or, more broadly, economics, policy, finance, and the social sciences, please contact us, even if there is no specific job listing active. Send your CV and a few paragraphs about your background and interest to us at opportunities@jainfamilyinstitute.org.

JFI fellowship funding is for the benefit of fellows and does not cover indirect or overhead costs, if any, at third party institutions.