Letters & Science

Emmanuel Saez

Emmanuel Saez is Professor of Economics and Director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality at UC Berkeley. He received his PhD in Economics from MIT in 1999. His research focuses on inequality and tax policy. Jointly with Thomas Piketty, he created the top income share series that show a dramatic increase in US inequality since 1980. The data have been widely discussed in the public debate. His most recent book "The Triumph of Injustice", joint with his colleague Gabriel Zucman, narrates the demise of US progressive taxation and how to reinvent it in the 21st century. He received numerous academic awards including the John Bates Clark medal of the American Economic Association in 2009, a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship in 2010, and an Honorary degree from Harvard University in 2019. Read more

Hilary Hoynes

Hilary Hoynes, co-director of the  James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality at UC Berkeley, is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy and holds the Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities at the University of California Berkeley where she also co-directs the Berkeley Opportunity Lab. Her research focuses on poverty, inequality, food and nutrition programs, and the impacts of government tax and transfer programs on low-income families. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists. She has served as Co-Editor of the American Economic Review and the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. She currently serves on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Building an Agenda to Reduce the Number of Children in Poverty by Half in 10 Years. Read more

Gabriel Zucman

Gabriel Zucman is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, co-director of the summer school at the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality at UC Berkeley, and director of the EU Tax Observatory. He is the author of articles published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Public Economics, and of two books. His research focuses on the accumulation, distribution, and taxation of global wealth and has renewed the analysis of the macro-distributional implications of globalization. In a series of papers and in his book The Hidden Wealth of Nations, he has developed methods to measure the wealth held in tax havens. This research finds that 8% of the world’s household financial wealth is held in tax havens, with large variation across countries—from a few percent in Scandinavia to 50% in Russia. Data leaked from offshore financial institutions (such as the “Panama Papers”) suggest that offshore wealth is highly concentrated. Read more

Mathilde Muñoz

Mathilde Muñoz is Assistant professor of economics and a faculty affiliate at the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality at UC Berkeley. Mathilde works on topics in public economics and international trade, with a particular interest for the distributional effects of globalization and tax competition. Her research has been awarded the Young Economist Award from the International Institute for Public Finance in 2019, the OECD Future of work fellowship in 2020 and the Arthur Sachs prize in 2021. Since 2020, she has been appointed by the European Commission as a national expert for international mobility and trade in services in France and Belgium, as part of the POSTING.STAT consortium. She will receive her PhD in Economics from Paris School of Economics in 2022 after spending the 2021-2022 year as the Arthur Sachs research fellow at Harvard Economics department. Read more

Eva Seto

Eva Seto is Associate Director of the Social Science Matrix and administers the Summer Institute for the Stone Center at Berkeley. Her education and many years of experience working in research institutes on the Berkeley campus provide Matrix with knowledge about the social-science landscape on campus, as well as the management skills to help successfully administer the programs, centers, and projects of Matrix. Eva earned her M.A. and B.A in Economics from UC Berkeley.

Camille Fernandez

Camille is the Executive Director for the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality along with The Robert D. Burch and Center for Labor Economics. She has worked in the economics department in several roles, including serving as center manager for various centers. She is a former staff member of the UC Berkeley Police Department where she supported the department for 20 years.