Emanuele Colonnelli is a Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Oeindrila Dube is the Philip K. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy. She studies poverty and conflict in the developing world.

Audrey Lorvo is an AI Policy Associate at J-PAL Global, where she supports the Partnership for AI Evidence (PAIE). PAIE evaluates and scales transformative applications of AI in development programs, with the goal of maximizing the social benefits of AI and supporting poverty alleviation policies...

Attaullah Abbasi is a Senior AI Policy Associate at J-PAL Global, where he supports efforts to maximize the social benefits of artificial intelligence and assess its potential risks and unintended consequences. As a member of the Policy and Communications group, Attaullah works with partners...

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...

Iqbal Singh Dhaliwal is the Global Executive Director of J-PAL since January 2018. He works with the Board of Directors to develop the organization’s strategic vision, and with the leadership of the seven regional offices to coordinate J-PAL’s worldwide research, policy outreach, capacity building...

Daniel Björkegren is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). He works on digital transformation and applied machine learning, with a focus on developing economies.

David Atkin is the Barton L. Weller (1940) Professor of Economics at MIT and a Co-Chair of J-PAL's Firms sector.

Sendhil Mullainathan is the Peter de Florez Professor at MIT with Dual Appointment in Economics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and Co-Chair of J-PAL's Partnership for AI Evidence. His current research uses machine learning to understand complex problems in human behavior...