Charles Calomiris is the Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. He is a member of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Stephen Haber is the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also the A. A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford, where he is a professor of political science, professor of history, and professor of economics (by courtesy). In addition, Haber is a senior fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and a research economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has consulted for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. His research focuses on the impact of fundamental political institutions on economic regulation and property rights systems. Much of his work has focused on Latin America, although he has also written on Africa, the Middle East, and the United States.

F. Scott Kieff is the Ray and Louis Knowles Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC. He previously served as senior fellow, research fellow, W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow and the Robert Eckles Swain National Fellow, all at Hoover; and he also served as professor at the Washington University in Saint Louis School of Law with a secondary appointment in the School of Medicine’s Department of Neurological Surgery.

Kieff directs Hoover’s Project on Commercializing Innovation, which studies the law, economics, and politics of innovation, including entrepreneurship, corporate governance, finance, economic development, intellectual property, antitrust, and bankruptcy. He also serves on Hoover’s Property Rights Task Force.

James Robinson is professor of government at Harvard University and a faculty associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Robinson studied economics at the London School of Economics, the University of Warwick, and Yale University. He previously taught in the department of economics at the University of Melbourne, the University of Southern California, and the University of California, Berkeley. His main research interest is why countries differ, particularly why some are more prosperous than others and why some are more democratic than others.