Spring Meetings

Era Dabla-Norris
Deputy Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF

Era Dabla-Norris is Deputy Director in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department, where she leads the work on the IMF flagship report, the Fiscal Monitor and on AI and Fiscal Policy. Previously she was in the Asia Pacific Department as mission chief for Vietnam. Prior to this, she was a Division Chief in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department, working on debt, structural reforms and productivity, fiscal spillovers, and demographic change. Since joining the IMF, she has worked on a range of advanced, emerging market, and low-income countries and published widely on a variety of topics. She is the editor of the book Debt and Entanglements.  Her research has also been profiled regularly in leading global newspapers and magazines such as The Economist, Financial Times, Bloomberg, BBC, and CNN. She is a contributing member of the Global Futures Council of the World Economic Forum. Era holds a Master’s degree from the Delhi School of Economics, India, and a PhD from the University of Texas

Sir Christopher Pissarides
Regius Professor of Economics, London School of Economics

Sir Christopher Pissarides is the Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, the Professor of European Studies at the University of Cyprus and the co-founder and former co-chair of the Institute for the Future of Work. He specialises in the economics of labour markets, economic growth and structural change, especially as they relate to market imperfections, where his work has been internationally influential.  In 2010 Sir Christopher was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for this work and in 2013 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He has recently worked extensively on the implications of automation and artificial intelligence for the future of work. He has been honoured with several other awards, Prizes and Society fellowships. He is currently the President of the Royal Economic Society and in 2011 he served as the President of the European Economic Association.

Eric Parrado
Chief Economist, Inter-American Development Bank

Eric Parrado is Chief Economist and General Manager of the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) since March 2019. Before joining the IDB, he was a professor of economics and finance at the ESE Business School of the Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Mr. Parrado is a visiting professor at Oxford University and ETH Zurich and co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Economics of Equitable Transition. From 2014 to 2018 he was the Superintendent of Banks and Financial Institutions in Chile, where he promoted reforms such as the modernization of banking legislation and the creation of new instruments for financial inclusion.

In 2018, ComunidadMujer distinguished Mr. Parrado as a leader in gender equality for his work on the empowerment and economic self-reliance of women in Chile. In 2011, he was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum; in 2009, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Americas Business Council named him as one of a new generation of leaders in the Americas.

Stephanie Bell
Chief Programs and Insights Officer, Partnership on AI

Stephanie Bell is the Chief Programs and Insights Officer at PAI, leading programs that ensure AI centers people and society. She co-developed the Guidelines for AI & Shared Prosperity, a tool to assess AI’s impacts on wages, job availability, and job quality and a set of practices to promote equitable economic growth and high quality jobs. In an earlier project, AI & Job Quality: Insights from Frontline Workers, she engaged with workers around the globe to understand their experiences of AI in the workplace. Her research has been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Brookings Institution, and The Economist Impact, and cited in U.S. Senate testimony. Previously, she was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, advising on the future of work and economic development. She holds a DPhil in Politics and an MPhil in Development Studies from Oxford, and a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago.

Alex Tamkin
AI Research Scientist, Anthropic

Alex Tamkin is a Member of Technical Staff and a researcher on the Societal Impacts team at Anthropic. Tamkin co-leads work tracking the economic impacts of AI systems (Anthropic Economic Index), and developing new tools for understanding AI's broader societal impacts (Clio) and new interfaces for human-AI collaboration (Claude Artifacts). Tamkin received his PhD and his BS in computer science from Stanford University.