Our Experts
Staff
Mike Wiley, Senior Center Manager
As senior manager, Mike oversees the Center’s projects and operations—spanning communications, development strategy, and organizational planning—while also contributing directly to research and analysis. Prior to joining the center, Mike worked as a federal consultant supporting strategic planning and change management across agencies including the Department of Veterans Affairs and NASA. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in Public Policy Studies from the University of Chicago.
Aidan T. Kane, Research Analyst
Aidan is a research analyst for the Center on Regulation and Markets. Prior to joining Brookings, Aidan worked as a research assistant on time persistence and spatial spillovers in local government expenditures. His background is in environmental and labor economics. His previous projects include economic growth and emissions research and labor law research. He received his B.S. in Economics from James Madison University.
Eli Schrag, Senior Research Assistant 
Eli is a senior research assistant for the Center on Regulation and Markets. Before Brookings, Eli worked at an economic consulting firm as a summer associate doing research for anti-trust, patent infringement, and other ongoing litigation. His previous projects have included research on technology and the future of employment, empirical work on land use regulation, and theoretical and historical analysis of emissions trading schemes. He received his B.S in Economics and Applied Mathematics from Brandeis University.
External Contributors
Benjamin Cedric Larsen, World Economic Forum
Benjamin Cedric Larsen is AI and Machine Learning Project Lead at the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco. He holds a PhD in AI governance from Copenhagen Business School, and was a visiting researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing from 2018-19 and at Stanford’s Asia Pacific Research Center from 2019-20. Benjamin’s research focuses broadly on ‘AI Governance,’ from technical dimensions to policy and regulation. He is a contributor to the Series, The Economics and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies.
Joshua A. Tucker, New York University
Joshua A. Tucker is Professor of Politics at New York University, Director of NYU’s Jordan Center for Advanced Study of Russia, co-Director of the NYU Center for Social Media and Politics. His research focuses on the intersection of social media and politics, as well as mass political behavior in post-communist countries. His most recent book is the co-edited Social Media and Democracy: The State of the Field (Cambridge University Press, 2020). He is also a Senior Advisor at Kroll and a Kroll Institute Fellow. He is a contributor to the Series, The Economics and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies.