Mark Shepard is an assistant professor at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research studies health care markets, with topics at the intersection of health, industrial organization, and public economics. Much of his work focuses on competition and policy design in health insurance markets, particularly in public programs like the Massachusetts/ACA health insurance exchanges and Medicaid managed care. Mark received his PhD in economics from Harvard University (2015) and his A.B. in applied math from Harvard (2008). He was a Post-doctoral Fellow (in Aging and Health Economics) at the NBER during the 2015-16 academic year before starting as an assistant professor in 2016-17. Before graduate school, Mark spent a year working at the Brookings Institution's Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform (2008-09).
Senior Lecturer in Economics, Massey University Michael has lectured in New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia, as well as working in distribution, international trade, and economic consultancy. Michael's main research interest is asset market dynamics; including market crises, currency hedging, ETFs, international financial management, exchange rate dynamics, complex networks and econophysics. He also has research interests in insurance, technological disruption, financial planning, and international investment. He has published in internationally respected academic journals.He is the author of a widely read book on the technologocal transformnation of insurance.
Associate Dean & Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Communications Studies, Mount Royal University Michael Roberts is Associate Dean and an Associate Professor at the Bissett School of Business at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada. He completed his PhD in International Business and Strategic Management in the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. He has been teaching since 1995, and had taught at business schools in Canada and South Korea including the KAIST Graduate School of Management. Michael joined Bissett in 2019 after completing his term of International Business, Strategy, and Law at MacEwan University. Most of Michael’s work is focused on the transfer of practices across international boundaries, with a particular focus on South Korea. He has published scholarly papers, policy focused reports, and written cases that focus on Asia region and South Korea in particular. Michael has published work for peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Management Studies (JMS), International Journal of Human Resource Management, and International Business Review (IBR).
Marie Curie postdoctoral researcher, University of Oxford I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, conducting research on Japanese organised crime (yakuza) and emerging criminal groups in Japan.
Professor of Religion and Politics, Director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics, University of St Andrews Mario I Aguilar is Professor of Religion and Politics, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics (CSRP) at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, U.K. He is the author of several works on Pope Francis, including Pope Francis: His Life and Thought (2014), and Pope Francis: Journeys of a Peacemaker (2022). He has worked in African countries for the past 35 years after his doctoral studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.
Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego Marc-Andreas Muendler is Professor in the Economics Department at the University of California, San Diego, where he is starting up the Globalization and Prosperity Lab. He is a Research Professor at the ifo Institute Munich, Germany, a Guest Professor at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Muendler has published in leading economic journals on the origins of globalization and its consequences for local industries and labor markets, firm dynamics and entrepreneurship, and information economics. Muendler's research revolves around local impacts of global markets.
