Joshua Blumenstock is an Associate Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and the Goldman School of Public Policy. He is a Co-Director of the Global Policy Lab and the Co-Director of the Center for Effective Global Action.

Sam is the Senior AI Policy Manager at J-PAL, where she leads efforts to use insights from existing evidence to maximize the social impact of artificial intelligence, and to generate new evidence on the impacts and unintended consequences of AI tools. Prior to joining J-PAL in 2025, Sam was a Senior...

Jack Cavanagh is a Senior Research, Education, and Training Associate at J-PAL Global, where he works on research methods and transparency, including projects on research resources, data publication, and an RCT metadata catalogue.

Saurabh Bhargava is a Behavioral Economist currently serving as a Visiting Associate Professor of Economics at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he teaches managerial decision-making with an emphasis on perspectives from machine learning and AI. He previously served as an...

Kelsey Jack is the Sheth Sustainable Business Chancellor's Chair and an Associate Professor of Environmental and Development Economics at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER. Prior to...