Liran Einav (Stanford University) is the Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics at Stanford University and a research associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he is directing the Industrial Organization Program.
His areas of specialization are industrial organization, health economics, and insurance markets. An important strand of his work is focused on empirical analyses of the implications of adverse selection and moral hazard. Much of Einav’s current work is focused on health-care markets.

Marcella Alsan (Stanford University) is Professor of Economics and Director of the Health Inequality Lab at Stanford University. She previously held the Angelopoulos Professorship of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and completed her medical training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. She is the co-recipient of the 2019 and 2025 Kenneth J. Arrow Awards for Best Paper in Health Economics and the 2021 William G. Manning Memorial Award for the Best Research in Health Econometrics. Her research examines the causes and consequences of health disparities, combining insights from economics and public health.

Right: Photo by LiPo Ching for Stanford University