The Bay Area Council Economic Institute Research Council is composed of respected university and business economic analysts, who advise and assist the Economic Institute in developing its research and analytic products.

Research Council Members

Paul Fassinger, PhD, Research Director, Association of Bay Area Governments

Frederick T. Furlong, PhD, Vice President, Banking, Finance & Regional Studies, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Stephen Goodman, Principal, Madrone Advisory

Olaf Groth, PhD, CEO, Zeitgeist Innovation Network and Senior Fellow for Innovation, Institute for Business in the Global Context, Tufts University

Doug Henton, PhD, President & Founder, Collaborative Economics

Jed Kolko, PhD, Chief Economist, Trulia

Cynthia Kroll, PhD, Senior Regional Economist, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

James Manyika, PhD, Director, McKinsey Global Institute

Joseph Nation, PhD, Lecturer/Director of Public Policy Program Graduate Practice, Stanford University

Lisa H. Neuberger-Fernandez, Strategy and Innovation Lead, Corporate Citizenship, Accenture

Navi Radjou, Executive Director, Centre for India & Global Business, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Annalee Saxenian, PhD, Dean, School of Information, UC Berkeley

Fred Silva, Senior Fiscal Policy Advisor, California Forward

David L. Sunding, PhD, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley

John Zysman, PhD, Co-Director, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, UC Berkeley