Andy Garin is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University.

John S. Earle is a Professor of Public Policy in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. His main research interests are in labor, development, transition, and institutions, including topics such as employment policies, financial constraints, reallocation, productivity, and entrepreneurship.

Todd Dickey is an assistant professor of public administration and international affairs at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.  His research interests are in the fields of public sector human resource management, labor and employment relations, and workplace conflict management.

Pieter De Vlieger is an economist at Uber and previously obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan. His research agenda centers on topics in labor and health economics, with a particular interest in how domestic outsourcing decisions affect labor market outcomes, and how physician incentives affect provision and quality of healthcare services. He studied Business Engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and obtained an MSc in Economics from University College London. 

Juan De Lara is Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at The University of Southern California.  His research focuses on the intersections of race, the economy, and social movements.

Aixa Cintrón-Vélez is Program Director at the Russell Sage Foundation, where she manages the scientific portfolio for the Future of Work program and for the Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration program. She has been instrumental in supporting a research agenda that focuses, among other subjects, on the outsourcing of work and the rise in contingent employment.

Françoise Carré is Research Director of the Center for Social Policy (CSP) at University of Massachusetts Boston.  Her policy relevant work includes studies of retail employment, community-based job brokers in the U.S., and research on international statistics and representation issues for informal workers in dev

Nick Bloom is the William E. Eberle Professor of Economics in the department of economics at Stanford University and Professor, by courtesy, at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford.

Chris Benner is the Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship, and Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  He currently directs the Everett Program for Technology and Social Change and the Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation.  His research examines the relationships between technological change, regional development, and the structure of economic opportunity.