ASSA 2027 AEA Mentoring and Networking Luncheon

We are excited to host the third annual AEA Mentoring and Networking Luncheon at the 2027 ASSA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. This year’s luncheon will offer students and junior scholars an opportunity to connect with senior (and other junior) economists in their field.

Join us on Monday, January 4, 2027, for a plated lunch and meaningful conversations among hundreds of participants. Students and junior scholars will be seated at tables of ten, each featuring at least one senior economist, and organized around various fields and engaging themes. Students and junior scholars will be matched with senior economists based on topic preference. Pricing for the luncheon is $30 for students and $60 for all others.

For purposes of the luncheon, students are defined as PhD students in economics and finance departments, and junior scholars are defined as untenured faculty in tenure-track positions who have an economics or finance PhD or researchers with economics or finance PhDs employed at institutions with similar research expectations who received their PhD in 2017 or later.

We are pleased to announce the following distinguished table leaders so far. This list is subject to additions and changes at any point prior to the event.

Katharine Abraham, University of Maryland
Randy Akee, Harvard University
S. Nageeb Ali, Pennsylvania State University
Marcella Alsan, Stanford University
Nathaniel Baum-Snow, University of Toronto
Francesco Bianchi, Johns Hopkins University
Katarzyna Bilicka, Utah State University
Peter Blair Henry, Stanford University
Luisa Blanco, Pepperdine University
Vicki Bogan, Duke University
Marika Cabral, University of Texas at Austin
John Campbell, Harvard University
Elizabeth U. Cascio, Dartmouth College
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University
Kimberly Clausing, University of California, Los Angeles
Nicolas Crouzet, Northwestern University
Zhi Da, University of Notre Dame
Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Janice Eberly, Northwestern University
Ray Fisman, Boston University
John Friedman, Brown University
Peter Ganong, University of Chicago
Laura K. Gee, Tufts University
Pinelopi (Penny) Goldberg, Yale University
Claudia Goldin, Harvard University
Clifton Green, Emory University
Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Brown University
Lawrence Katz, Harvard University
Ben Keys, University of Pennsylvania
Patrick Kline, University of California, Berkeley
Jeffrey Kling, Congressional Budget Office
Rachel Kranton, Duke University
Kevin Lang, Boston University
Moritz Lenel, Princeton University
Nuno Limão, Georgetown University
Michelle Lowry, Drexel University
Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Dartmouth College
Yueran Ma, University of Chicago
Nicole Maestas, Harvard University
Olivia S. Mitchell, University of Pennsylvania
John Mondragon, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Paige Ouimet, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jonathan A. Parker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lubos Pastor, University of Chicago
Gordon Phillips, Dartmouth College
Vincenzo Quadrini, University of Southern California
Ayşegül Şahin, Princeton University
Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lara Shore-Sheppard, Williams College
Tymon Słoczyński, Brandeis University
James Stock, Harvard University
Andrew Sweeting, University of Maryland
Chris Taber, University of Wisconsin - Madison
David N. Weil, Brown University
Johannes Wieland, University of California, San Diego