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Austin L. Wright is an Associate Professor and the Director of Strategic Initiatives at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. His research leverages innovative data capture techniques, massive-scale datasets, and data science tools to study a range of public policy challenges, including economic development and state fragility. His work is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Minerva Research Initiative, World Bank, United Nations, International Growth Centre, Centre for Economic Policy Research, and Becker Friedman Institute. 

Shaoda Wang is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), an affiliate of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), and a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow. He also serves as the Deputy Faculty Director of the China centers of the Becker Friedman Institute (BFI-China) and the Energy Policy Institute at UChicago (EPIC-China).

Sheng-Hao Lo is an Assistant Instructional Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, where he teaches core courses in Statistics, Data Analytics and Microeconomics, and has led the redesign of electives. He has a broad set of teaching and research interests in applied microeconomics and applied econometrics, with a focus on health policy.

Thomas Coleman, PhD'84, is focused on teaching students about financial markets. In 2012 Coleman returned to the University of Chicago, first as Executive Director and Senior Advisor at the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics and then in 2015 as lecturer at Harris. Prior to returning to the University of Chicago, Coleman worked in the finance industry for over twenty years, with considerable experience in trading, risk management, and quantitative modeling.

Dr. Rebecca J. Wolfe is a leading expert on political violence, conflict and development. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Harris School for Public Policy at the University of Chicago, where she also is the Executive Director of the International Policy and Development area and the Academic Lead for the Master of Public Policy program. Prior to joining the faculty at Chicago, she led research and program development related to conflict and fragility at Mercy Corps, an international development and humanitarian agency. 

David Chrisinger is the Executive Director of the Harris Writing Workshop, where he leads schoolwide efforts to strengthen student writing and serves as faculty lead for the Persuasive Writing Credential Program and staff lead for the Harris Core Project. He also advises the student-led Chicago Policy Review and teaches courses on trauma-informed policy communication and AI-assisted writing.