coauthors

AnnaLee Saxenian

AnnaLee Saxenian

AnnaLee Saxenian has made a career of studying regional economies and the conditions under which people, ideas, and geographies combine and connect to hubs of economic activity. Her latest book, The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy (Harvard University Press, 2006), explores how and why immigrant engineers from Silicon Valley are transferring their technology entrepreneurship to emerging regions in their home countries—China and India in particular—and launching companies far from established centers of skill and technology. The "brain drain" she argues, has now become "brain circulation"—a powerful economic force for the development of formerly peripheral regions that is sparking profound transformations in the global economy. She is currently Dean and Professor at the U.C. Berkeley School of Information, and she has a PhD from MIT and a BA from Willams College.

Guillermina Jasso

Guillermina Jasso

Guillermina Jasso (PhD, Johns Hopkins) is Professor of Sociology at New York University and Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany. Her major research interests are sociobehavioral theory, international migration, mathematical methods for theory building, and factorial survey methods for empirical analysis. Professor Jasso has proposed a new mathematical formula for describing the experience of injustice; a new unified theory that integrates justice, status, power, and identity; two new families of probability distributions; and a methodology for an empirically-based point system for the selection of immigrants. She was elected to the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars and to the Sociological Research Association, was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and is a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University.

Richard B. Freeman

Richard Freeman

Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. He is currently serving as Faculty Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School. He is also director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance, and visiting professor at the London School of Economics. Professor Freeman is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of Sigma Xi. He has served on five panels of the National Academy of Sciences, including the Committee on National Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists. He has published over 300 articles dealing with a wide range of research interests. He is currently directing the NBER / Sloan Science Engineering Workforce Project (with Daniel Goroff).

Aneesh Chopra

Aneesh Chopra

Aneesh Chopra is currently Virginia’s Fourth Secretary of Technology serving Governor Tim Kaine. In this capacity, he leads the Commonwealth’s strategy to effectively leverage technology in government reform, promotes Virginia’s innovation agenda, and fosters technology-related economic development with a special emphasis on entrepreneurship. Prior to joining Governor Kaine’s cabinet, Aneesh served as Managing Director with the Advisory Board Company, a publicly-traded health care think tank serving nearly 2,500 hospitals and health systems. He led the firm’s Financial Leadership Council and the Working Council for Health Plan Executives. Aneesh graduated with a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1997.  He graduated with a B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1994.

Alyse Freilich

Alyse Freilich

Alyse Freilich is a Senior Analyst in Research and Policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City.  Ms. Freilich's responsibilities include support for academic and policy research in the field of entrepreneurship. She has previously held positions at healthcare research firms in both Kansas City and Washington D.C., and she served as a Research Associate in the Urban Institute's Immigration Studies Program. She has a B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard University. 

Ryan Ong

Ryan Ong

Ryan Ong is Manager, Business Advisory Services at the US-China Business Council, where he works to inform and advise member companies on sector-specific and general investment issues that impact their business operations in China. His portfolio includes intellectual property, healthcare, consumer safety, and investment issues. He was previously a Research Associate at the Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness at Duke University.  Ryan holds a B.A. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, a Certificate in China Studies from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in Nanjing, China, and a M.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).