Washington, D.C.—Today, Better Markets announced the formation of its inaugural Academic Advisory Board. The new initiative will serve as a platform for leading scholars focused on economics, law, finance, and financial regulation, and enable collaboration across the range of related issues facing the country.
The Better Markets Academic Advisory Board (BMAAB) will foster a dynamic community of academics who are dedicated to improving economic outcomes, strengthening financial and banking systems, and facilitating broad-based wealth creation and rising living standards for all Americans. The BMAAB also aims to increase interaction between academics and policymakers, filling a critical gap where academic scholarship can provide important insights for policy formation and decision-making.
“The creation of the Better Markets Academic Advisory Board reflects our commitment to bringing together some of the brightest minds in economics, law, and finance to focus on an economy that works for all Americans and a financial system that supports a growing economy,” said Dennis Kelleher, Better Markets, President, CEO, and Co-founder. “The BMAAB will help guide our advocacy through its knowledge, insight, and expertise while also being a communication, messaging, organizing, and policy-impacting hub.”
Professor Simon Johnson, recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, of the MIT Sloan School of Management, Professor Kathryn Judge of Columbia Law School, and Professor Jennifer Taub of Wayne State University Law School, will serve as co-chairs of the BMAAB. They will be joined by Nobel Prize winner Columbia Professor Joseph Stiglitz and other distinguished academic members of the BMAAB. A full list of members is below and their individual bios are on the Better Markets website.
“We appreciate the opportunity to interact and collaborate with our distinguished colleagues on the pressing issues facing our economy and financial system,” said the Co-Chairs. “The BMAAB will provide an important forum to curate academic scholarship with policy and make important contributions to inform economic and financial policy making.”
Travis Horr, Better Markets’ Director of External Affairs, will be the liaison for the BMAAB. He can be reached at [email protected].
Better Markets Academic Advisory Board Members:
Simon Johnson, Co-Chair, MIT Sloan School of Management
Kathryn Judge, Co-Chair, Columbia Law School
Jennifer Taub, Co-Chair, Wayne State University Law School
Viral Acharya, New York University Stern School of Business
Anat Admati, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Hilary Allen, American University College of Law
Mehrsa Baradaran, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Vicki Bogan, Duke Sanford School of Public Policy
Emma Coleman Jordan, Georgetown Law
Jerry Epstein, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Thomas Ferguson, University of Massachusetts Boston Emeritus
Gina-Gail S. Fletcher, Duke University School of Law
Michael Greenberger, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Robert Hockett, Cornell Law School
Adrian Keevil, University of Virginia Darden School of Business
Jeremy Kress, Michigan Ross School of Business
Patricia McCoy, Boston College Law School
Lev Menand, Columbia Law School
Joe Stiglitz, Columbia Law School
Art Wilmarth, George Washington Law Emeritus
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Better Markets is a non-profit, non-partisan, and independent organization founded in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to promote the public interest in the financial markets, support the financial reform of Wall Street and make our financial system work for all Americans again. Better Markets works with allies—including many in finance—to promote pro-market, pro-business and pro-growth policies that help build a stronger, safer financial system that protects and promotes Americans’ jobs, savings, retirements and more. To learn more, visit www.bettermarkets.org.
