Faculty

Wifag Adnan, Associate Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: wa22@nyu.edu
Education: BS Duke University (magna cum laude with distinction); PhD Princeton University

Research Interests: Labor markets; Job search; Employment; Wage differentials; Female labor force; Education

Rana Khalid AlMutawa, Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rana.almutawa@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Oxford; MIA Columbia University

Research Interests: UAE; GCC; Belonging; Urbanity; Community; Social Distinction

Bedoor AlShebli, Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: bedoor@nyu.edu
Education: BSc in Computer Science from Kuwait University, Msc in Computer Science from University of Illinois ...

Research Interests: Computational social science; Data science; Big data; Science of science

Robert Allen, Global Distinguished Professor of Economic History Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: bob.allen@nyu.edu
Education: BA Carleton College, MA and PhD Harvard Univesity

Research Interests: Economic History, Technological Change, Public Policy

Elisabeth Anderson, Associate Professor of Sociology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: aea4@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Northwestern University (2013)

Research Interests: Political Sociology, Comparative-historical Sociology, Social Theory

Laure Salma Assaf, Assistant Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies, Anthropology and Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: laure.assaf@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Paris Nanterre University

Research Interests: Arabian Peninsula; United Arab Emirates, Youth, Migration, Hierarchies, Social change, Anthropology

Mounther Barakat, Professor of Practice of Finance Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: Mounther.Barakat@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Oklahoma State University

Research Interests: Financial Markets; Securities; Corporate Finance, Derivatives; Event Studies; Agency Theory; Investm...

Andrzej Baranski, Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: a.baranski@nyu.edu
Education: BA Universidad de Costa Rica; MA and PhD The Ohio State University

Research Interests: Game Theory, Experimental Economics

Joan Barceló, Assistant Professor of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: joan.barcelo@nyu.edu
Education: BA Universitat de Barcelona; MSc Universitat Pompeu Fabra; MA New York University; PhD Washington Un...

Research Interests: Conflict; Terrorism; Political behavior

Muhammet Ali Bas, Associate Professor of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mab43@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Rochester

Research Interests: International relations; Formal modeling; Political methodology

David Blakeslee, Associate Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: dsb12@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Columbia University

Research Interests: Political economy of development

Olivier Bochet, Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs; Professor of Economics; Co-Principal Investigator of Center for Behavioral Institutional Design (C-BID) Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ob16@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Brown University

Research Interests: Incentives; Efficiency; Equity

Barthélémy Bonadio, Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: bbonadio@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Michigan

Research Interests: International Economics

Cristina Buarque de Hollanda, Adjunct Lecturer of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: cb165@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Universitarian Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro, Candido Mendes University, Brazil

Research Interests: Human Rights; Transitional Justice; Political Theory; Brazilian Political Thought

Rosemary Byrne, Professor of Legal Studies Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: Rosemary.Byrne@nyu.edu
Education: BA Barnard College, Columbia University; JD Harvard Law School

Research Interests: Public international law; International and EU human rights law; International refugee and EU asylum...

Alessandro Citanna, Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ac6609@nyu.edu
Education: BA Bocconi University; MA Bocconi University; PhD University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests: Economic theory; Quantitative methods; Financial economics; Macroeconomics

Pauline Zélia Eugénie Corblet, Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pauline.corblet@nyu.edu
Education: BA Sorbonne Université - Sciences Po; MA Sorbonne Université - Sciences Po; PhD Sciences Po

Research Interests: Labor economics; education; matching theory

Hervé Crès, Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: hc59@nyu.edu

Research Interests: General equilibrium theory, Social choice theory, Formal political theory

Aurelie Dariel, Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: apd5@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Research Interests: Behavioral economics, experimental economics, labor economics, gender

Nadine Debbas Achkar, Visiting Professor of Practice of Legal Studies Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nd1617@nyu.edu
Education: BA Georgetown University; JD Columbia University School of Law

Research Interests: International Arbitration; Gender and Law

Georgi Derluguian, Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: gd44@nyu.edu
Education: BA Moscow State University; PhD State University of New York (Binghamton)

Research Interests: Revolutions; Social change; Ethnography

Pavlos Eleftheriadis, Program Head of Legal Studies; Professor of Legal Studies Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pavlos.eleftheriadis@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Athens; LLM, PhD University of Cambridge

Research Interests: Jurisprudence, rights, European Union, justice, climate change

Paula England, Dean of Social Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pe22@nyu.edu
Education: BA, Whitman College; MA, University of Chicago; PhD, University of Chicago

Research Interests: Gender inequality; Families; Sexualities

Giovanni Federico, Professor of Economic History Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: giovanni.federico@nyu.edu
Education: Laurea University of Pisa; PhD Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa)

Research Interests: Trade and Globalization; Agriculture; Long-term Population Growth

Torsten Figueiredo Walter, Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: t.f.walter@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Bonn University; MRes London School of Economics; PhD London School of Economics

Research Interests: Development Economics

Nancy W. Gleason, Professor of Practice of Political Science; Director, Hilary Ballon Center for Teaching and Learning Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: NancyGleason@nyu.edu
Education: BA, George Washington University; MSc London School of Economics; MA The Fletcher School, Tufts Univ...

Research Interests: The Future of Work and Education, Workforce Transformation, Youth Empowerment, Upskilling

Peter Goodrich, Visiting Professor of Law Affiliation: Visiting
Email: pg62@nyu.edu
Education: LLB, University of Sheffield; PhD University of Edinburgh

Research Interests: Legal history and theory; Law and literature

Sanjeev Goyal, Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sg6280@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Delhi; MBA IIM Ahmedabad; MA, PhD Cornell University

Research Interests: Economic theory. Networks. Conflict. Identity.

Christian Haefke, Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ch109@nyu.edu
Education: Mag.rer.soc.oec, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration; Diploma, Institute for ...

Research Interests: Labor markets; Applied econometrics

John Ham, Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jch18@nyu.edu
Education: BA from the University of Toronto; PhD Princeton University

Research Interests: Applied microeconomics; Labor; Health; Experimental economics

Eric Hamilton, Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff; Lecturer of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: eric.hamilton@nyu.edu
Education: MA Georgetown University; PhD University of Southern California

Research Interests: International Relations Theory; Security Studies; US Foreign and National Security Policy; Middle Ea...

Morgan Hardy, Associate Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: morgan.hardy@nyu.edu
Education: BA Columbia University; PhD Brown University

Research Interests: Development economics; Firms; Labor markets; Social networks

Jonathan Andrew Harris, Associate Professor of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jah26@nyu.edu
Education: PhD in Government, Harvard University

Research Interests: Institutions and political behavior in Africa

Stephane Helleringer, Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sh199@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests: Demography; Epidemics; Mortality, and Causes of Deaths

Jean M Imbs, Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jmi5@nyu.edu
Education: PhD New York University

Research Interests: Macroeconomics, International Finance and Macroeconomics, International Trade

Onoso Imoagene, Program Head of Social Research and Public Policy; Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: oii1@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Sociology University of Ibadan, Nigeria; MPhil Modern Society and Global Transformations Univers...

Research Interests: International Migration; Race and Ethnicity

Jeffrey Jensen, Senior Lecturer of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jeffrey.jensen@nyu.edu
Education: BS University of Florida; MA, PhD New York University

Research Interests: Comparative political economy

Sophia Soyoung Jeong, Associate Program Head of Business, Organizations and Society; Visiting Associate Professor of Business, Organizations and Society Affiliation: Visiting
Email: sophia.jeong@nyu.edu
Education: BA Ajou University; MA Ajou University; PhD University of South Carolina

Research Interests: Trust; Cooperation; Emotions; Ethics, Prosocial motivation and behaviors, Diversity

Jingoo Kang, Associate Professor of Business, Organizations and Society Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jk8186@nyu.edu
Education: BBA and MBA Yonsei University; MSc and PhD University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)

Research Interests: Exploration and exploitation; vacillation theory; dynamic ambidexterity

Aaron Kaufman, Assistant Professor of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: aaronkaufman@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of California, Berkeley; AM Harvard University; PhD Harvard University

Research Interests: Computational Social Science; Data Science; American Politics

Bekhzod Khoshimov, Assistant Professor of Business, Organizations and Society Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: b.khoshimov@nyu.edu
Education: BS Nanyang Technological University; MS University of Wisconsin - Madison; PhD University of Wiscons...

Research Interests: Entrepreneurship; venture capital, emotions

Korhan Kocak, Assistant Professor of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: kkocak@nyu.edu
Education: BA Sabanci University; MA Sabanci University; MA Princeton University; PhD Princeton University

Research Interests: Political Economy; Formal Theory; Comparative Politics

Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, Assistant Professor of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: gkd225@nyu.edu
Education: BA Tufts University, MA Columbia University, PhD Harvard University

Research Interests: Development; State building; MENA region; Religious politics

Sabino Kornrich, Associate Dean of Postdoctoral Programs and Research; Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sk8433@nyu.edu
Education: BA UNC-Chapel Hill; MA University of Washington; PhD University of Washington

Research Interests: Family; Inequality; Gender

Robert Kubinec, Assistant Professor of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rmk7@nyu.edu
Education: BA Wheaton College; MA George Washington University; PhD University of Virginia

Research Interests: Business Influence on Politics, Entrepreneurship, Bayesian Statistics, Online Survey Methodology

Aikaterini Kyriazidou, Program Head of MSc in Economics; Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ak7482@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Athens; MA Northwestern University; PhD Northwestern University

Research Interests: Econometrics; Applied economics

Benjamin Laughlin, Assistant Professor of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: benjamin.laughlin@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Washington; PhD University of Rochester

Research Interests: Comparative politics; Political economy; Conflict; Ethnic and national identity

Kangsan Lee, Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: kl76@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Northwestern University

Research Interests: Economic Sociology, Sociology of Art and Culture, Organizations and Entrepreneurship, Computational ...

Kinga Makovi, Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: km2537@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Columbia University

Research Interests: Social networks; Political sociology; Health; Online experiments; Computational methods

Samreen Malik, Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs; Associate Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: samreen.malik@nyu.edu
Education: MA Cornell University; PhD Cornell University

Research Interests: Applied micro, Development, Macroeconomics

Alais Martin-Baillon, Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: alais.martin.baillon@nyu.edu
Education: PhD SciencesPo

Research Interests: Macroeconomic; firm dynamics

Dirk Matten, Visiting Professor of Business, Organizations and Society Affiliation: Visiting
Email: dm6327@nyu.edu
Education: Diplom-Kaufman (MA) University of Essen, Germany; Dr. rer.pol. (PhD) Heinrich-Heine-University Düsse...

Research Interests: Business ethics, corporate responsibility, sustainability, global goverance

David Michael McCourt, Visiting Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: Visiting
Email: dmm9936@nyu.edu
Education: BA Oxford University, MPhil Cambridge University, MRes PhD European University Institute

Research Interests: US foreign policy; US-China relations; US-Russia relations; British foreign policy; international re...

Maximilian Mihm, Associate Program Head of Economics; Associate Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mm5826@nyu.edu

Research Interests: Economics of information and uncertainty

Stephanie Lee Mudge, Visiting Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: Visiting
Email: slm9637@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Pennsylvania, MA and PhD, University of California-Berkeley

Research Interests: Political parties, central banks, money and finance, expertise, democratic politics, social theory, ...

Veda Binod Narasimhan, Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: veda.narasimhan@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Zurich; MSc London School of Economics; BA McGill University

Research Interests: Rural development; political economy and institutions; migration and urbanisation

Nikos Nikiforakis, Professor of Economics; Co-director of the Center for Behavioral Institutional Design (C-BID) Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nikos.nikiforakis@nyu.edu

Research Interests: Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Public Economics

Jordan Norris, Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jjnorris@nyu.edu
Education: BA/MSci University of Cambridge; MA/PhD Northwestern University

Research Interests: Spatial Economics; International Trade; Macroeconomics; Networks

Abdul Noury, Associate Professor of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: abdul.noury@nyu.edu
Education: BA, MA, and PhD summa cum laude Université Libre de Bruxelles

Research Interests: European Union ideology; Nationality; Party systems

Yaw Nyarko, Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU New York
Email: yn1@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Ghana; MA and PhD Cornell University

Research Interests: Human capital; Economic growth

John O’Brien, Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jho3@nyu.edu
Education: BA Brown University; PhD UCLA

Research Interests: Culture; Religion; Social identity

Kevin O'Rourke, Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: kevin.orourke@nyu.edu
Education: BA Trinity College Dublin; PhD Harvard University

Research Interests: History of the international economy

Chinny Ogunro, Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice of Business, Organizations and Society Affiliation: Visiting
Email: cco2065@nyu.edu
Education: BA Stanford University; MHA Cornell University; PhD Harvard Business School

Research Interests: Innovation; entrepreneurship; international development; healthcare; operations; emerging economies

Ömer Faruk Örsün, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: oo13@nyu.edu
Education: MA University of Essex; PhD Koç University; Postdoc Harvard University

Research Interests: International Security; Machine Learning

Zeynep Ozgen, Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: zo2@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of California, Los Angeles; BA Bogazici University

Research Interests: Political sociology; Social movements; Culture

Christopher Paik, Associate Program Head of Political Science; Associate Professor of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: cp92@nyu.edu
Education: BCom University of British Columbia; MA University of Toronto; PhD Stanford University

Research Interests: International politics; Political geography; Comparative political economy; Economic history

Giuliana Pardelli, Assistant Professor of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: giuliana.pardelli@nyu.edu
Education: BA Universidade de São Paulo; MA Paris School of Economics; MA Hertie School of Governance; PhD Prin...

Research Interests: Political Economy; Taxation; State Capacity; Public Goods Provision; Inequality

Minsu Park, Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: minsu.park@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Cornell University

Research Interests: Culture; Consumption; Social Networks; Computational Social Science; Human-centered Data Science

Anju Mary Paul, Social Science Diversity Liaison; Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: anju.paul@nyu.edu
Education: BBA Honors (First Class) National University of Singapore; MA New York University; PhD University of...

Research Interests: Migration; Globalization; Gender and Labor; Domestic Work; Science Policy; Care Policy

Leonid Peisakhin, Associate Professor of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: leonid.peisakhin@nyu.edu
Education: B.A. Harvard University; M.Phil. University of Oxford; Ph.D. Yale University

Research Interests: Comparative politics; Political economy; Political identities; Historical legacies; Post-conflict re...

Luca Maria Pesando, Associate Program Head of Social Research and Public Policy; Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: lucamaria.pesando@nyu.edu
Education: BA Bocconi University; MA Bocconi University; MA University of Pennsylvania; PhD University of Penns...

Research Interests: Family; Poverty; Inequality; Demography; Education; Health; Youth; Child Development; Technology; B...

Melina Platas, Associate Professor of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mrp335@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Political Science, Stanford University; BA in Human Biology, Stanford University

Research Interests: Comparative political and human development in sub-Saharan Africa

Adam Ramey, Associate Professor of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: adam.ramey@nyu.edu
Education: BA George Washington University; MA, PhD University of Rochester

Research Interests: American Politics; Legislative Institutions; Political Methodology

Alicja Reuben, Adjunct Assistant Professor Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: alicja.reuben@nyu.edu
Education: BSFS Georgetown University, MPhil Columbia University, PhD Columbia University

Research Interests: CSR, Gender, Valuation Techniques, SSC

Ernesto Reuben, Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Societal Impact; Program Head of Business, Organizations and Society; Professor of Economics & Business, Organizations and Society; Co-Principal Investigator of Center for Behavioral Institutional Design (C-BID) Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ereuben@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Maryland; MPhil Tinbergen Institute; PhD University of Amsterdam

Research Interests: Determinants of labor-market outcomes; Social norms; Gender; Stereotypes; Behavioral Public Policy

Blaine Robbins, Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: bgr3@nyu.edu
Education: BS Pacific Lutheran University; PhD University of Washington

Research Interests: Social Psychology; Political Sociology; Social Networks; Research Methods

Pauline Rutsaert, Associate Professor of Practice of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pauline.rutsaert@nyu.edu
Education: MA Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium); PhD Cornell University (USA)

Research Interests: Industrial Organisation; Competition and Regulation; Industrial and Strategic Trade Policy; Innovati...

Rahul Sagar, Global Network Associate Professor of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rahul.sagar@nyu.edu

Research Interests: Political theory; Political ethics; Public policy

Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis, Associate Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rs8561@nyu.edu
Education: BA Valencia; MSc University College London; PhD University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests: Inequality, Intellectual Property Products and the Macroeconomy; Social Insurance, Resource Misalloc...

Barbara Constance Scheck, Visiting Professor of Business, Organizations and Society Affiliation: Visiting
Email: barbara.scheck@nyu.edu
Education: BA German Foreign Office; MSc. ESCP European School of Management; PhD Technical University Munich

Research Interests: (Social) Entrepreneurship; Impact Investing & Social Finance; Impact Measurement and Management

Sujeong Shim, Assistant Professor of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sujeong.shim@nyu.edu
Education: BA Northwestern University; PhD University of Wisconsin, Madison

Research Interests: International Political Economy; International Organizations; Domestic Politics

Jeff Steiner, Clinical Associate Professor of Management, Stern at NYUAD Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: j.steiner@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Harvard Business School; BBA, University of Miami

Research Interests: Work and Well-Being; The Employee Experience (“EX”); Leadership

Milena Tekeste, Visiting Assistant Professor of Business, Organizations and Society Affiliation: Visiting
Email: m.tekeste@nyu.edu
Education: Royal Holloway University of London, King's College University of London

Research Interests: Future of Work and Organizations, Careers, Flexibility at Work, Gender, Inequality, Qualitative Meth...

Rana Tomaira, Research Scientist and Senior Lecturer of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rvt2@nyu.edu
Education: University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D); University of California at Berkeley (Masters); Univers...

Research Interests: Development and public policy; Comparative development practices; Development

Zheng Wang, Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: zw966@nyu.edu
Education: PhD European University Institute; MSc London School of Economics

Research Interests: Econometrics; networks; peer effects

Etienne Wasmer, Program Head of Economics; Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ew1555@nyu.edu
Education: Ecole Polytechnique (BSc), Département et Laboratoire d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée (DELTA) (MA)...

Research Interests: Labor Economics; Macroeconomics; Search Theory; Urban Economics

Wisam Alshaibi, Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: wisam.alshaibi@nyu.edu
Education: PhD UCLA; BA University of Colorado, Boulder

Research Interests: Political violence; war; human rights; foreign policy; Iraq; elites; political sociology

John Wooders, Professor of Economics; Director of Social Science Experimental Lab (SSEL); Co-Director of Center for Behavioral Institutional Design (C-BID) Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jw4725@nyu.edu
Education: BS University of Toronto; PhD Cornell University

Research Interests: Microeconomic Theory, Experimental Economics

Peter Cornelis van der Windt, Program Head of Political Science; Associate Professor of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: petervanderwindt@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Columbia University; MPhil(cum laude) Tilburg University

Research Interests: Africa; Experiments; Governance; Displacement; Poverty