Staff - CEPR

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Mark Weisbrot co-founded CEPR in 1999. His areas of research include economic growth, trade, international financial institutions, and Latin America. He writes a column on economic and policy issues that is distributed to over 550 newspapers by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. He is co-author of Social Security: The Phony Crisis (with Dean Baker). He appears frequently on TV and radio news programs including, BBC World News, CNN, PBS NewsHour and Marketplace radio. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan.

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Alan Barber worked on several local and national political campaigns through the 2004 cycle. Before joining CEPR, he worked in the College Publishing Division of Congressional Quarterly and the direct mail firm of Mammen Pritchard Inc. He holds a B.A. in Government from Georgetown University.

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Dan Beeton has worked on international issues with organizations including the Center for Economic Justice, Haiti Reborn, and the U.S. Campaign for Burma. Prior to joining CEPR, he was associate director for Citizens Trade Campaign where he did research and advocacy on U.S. trade policy.

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Matthew Bernstein has worked as a senior accountant for an independent research institute affiliated with Georgetown University Medical Center, and most recently as an accounting manager for the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association. He also produced a documentary, Another Perspective on the Proposed Sports Arena at Gallery Place, about the potential socioeconomic effects of building what is now called the Verizon Center. He received his B.A. from Brandeis University.

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Kunda Chinku graduated from Middlebury College in 2007 with a B.A. in French and Political Science. Born in Zambia and having lived in Swaziland for most of her life, she is fluent in English, siSwati, Bemba and is proficient in French.

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Jose Antonio Cordero received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Notre Dame. Previously he got an M.A. in economics from the University of Kansas, and a B.S. in economics from the Universidad de Costa Rica. Before joining CEPR he worked at the Department of Economics of the Universidad de Costa Rica, where he also conducted various research and consulting projects. He was also a visiting professor at Mount Holyoke College during the 2006-2007 academic year. More recently his research interests have focused on the economic growth of open monetary economies, growth accounting, and on the impact of foreign investment in the development of the host country.

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Shawn Fremstad is an attorney and has written extensively on a broad range of social and fiscal policy issues. He is the editor of inclusionist.org and has worked as a consultant and advisor for several national nonprofits and think tanks, including the Brookings Institution, Catholic Charities USA, Center for Community Change, Green for All, National Council of La Raza, the National Immigration Law Center, PolicyLink, and The Workforce Alliance. He was previously Deputy Director of Income Security at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and an attorney and policy specialist for legal services programs in Minnesota. He holds a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School and has studied art and design at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

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Deborah James has over ten years of experience and expertise working on issues of trade and democratic global governance, with a focus on Latin America as well as the World Trade Organization. She was most recently the Director of the WTO Program of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, where she worked to inform civil society and governments worldwide about the potential impacts of the WTO's proposed expansion. She was also the Global Economy Director of Global Exchange, where she did similar work around the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas. She has written numerous articles and made regular media appearances on these issues for popular audiences in the US as well as Latin America.

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Jake Johnston graduated in 2008 with a B.A. in Economics from Boston University. His research focused on economic development, including a final paper for the Latin American Studies program entitled The Limits of Democracy in the Free Market. Throughout university and since graduating he has traveled throughout Latin America, predominantly in Ecuador, Colombia, and Nicaragua and is proficient in Spanish.

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Sara Kozameh holds a dual B.A. in Political Science/International Affairs, and Latin American Studies from the University of California,
Riverside. She also holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of California, San Diego, and an M.A. in Natural Resources
and Peace, from the United Nations Mandated University for Peace. She interned for the international organization Servicio, Paz y Justicia
(SERPAJ) in Santiago, Chile. She has also performed political, economic, and social research and analysis on Central America for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN-Mesoamerica) in Costa Rica. Finally, she has conducted research on social programs in Venezuela as part of an M.A. thesis project.

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Dawn Lobell began her career as an Economist with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. She then moved over to the private sector, where she held several marketing positions before leaving the corporate world behind in the late 1990s. Since then, she has worked as a fundraiser for several non-profit organizations in Boston and Baltimore. Her most recent position was with the Baltimore City Public School System. She has a B.S. in Economics from Towson University.

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Travis McArthur holds a B.S. in Economics and a B.A. in International Relations from American University. In recent years he has worked as a research intern at the Institute for Policy Studies, Oxfam America, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, and la Unión de Agricultores Minifundistas de Guatemala (Association of Smallholder Farmers of Guatemala).

Juan Antonio Montecino has a Masters of Science in International Trade, Finance and Development from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. His graduate thesis project, Capital Controls in Chile: A Case Study, placed Chilean capital controls during the 1990s in perspective and drew policy lessons for other developing countries seeking to pursue a pragmatic financial liberalization. He has authored several articles and reports, including Cleaving a False Divide in Latin America and Tilting Rightward: C-SPAN’s Coverage of Think Tanks, co-authored with CEPR co-director, Mark Weisbrot.

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Rebecca Ray has an M.A. in International Development Studies with a concentration in Economic Development Policy, from the Elliott School for International Affairs at George Washington University. Her academic fieldwork has included consulting for the Partnership for Food Industry Development in Nicaragua and the Institute for Sustainability Education and Action in Salt Spring Island, Canada.

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Hye Jin Rho holds a B.A. in Political Science and International Studies from Northwestern University. Prior to joining CEPR, she worked as a research analyst at Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship at Kellogg School of Management and as a media analyst at Diermeier Consulting Associates, LLC. She did extensive research on issues involving social networking, corporate social responsibility, and reputation management.

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David Rosnick is the architect of CEPR’s online calculators, including the Accurate Benefits Calculator and Housing Cost Calculator. Previously, he worked as a research associate at the North Carolina State University Department of Computer Science. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from N.C. State, a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering Physics from the University of Illinois, and an M.A. in Economics from George Washington University.

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John Schmitt has written extensively on unemployment, economic inequality, U.S./Europe labor economic performance and the welfare state. He has worked as a consultant for the American Center for International Labor Solidarity, the Global Policy Network, the International Labor Organization, and the UN Economic Commission for Latin America. He is also a visiting lecturer at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He holds a B.A. in International Affairs from Princeton University and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics.

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Matt Sherman holds a B.S. in Political and Social Thought, with a minor in Economics, from the University of Virginia. He wrote an independent thesis towards the completion of his major entitled The Microfinance Revolution: Making Business Sense Out of Poverty Alleviation.

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Kris Warner holds B.A.'s in Economics and Political Science and a minor in International Relations from Penn State University. He also has an M.Sc. in Community Economic Development from Southern New Hampshire University, where his thesis was on forming a worker cooperative. He has previously worked as a union organizer for the United Steelworkers of America.

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Nicole Woo has worked on domestic hunger policy as the Associate Director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger and as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Food Research and Action Center. She also has worked as a fundraiser and director of administration for several non-profit organizations in New York City and Washington, DC. She received her B.A. from Harvard University, where she concentrated in Government.