Jon Hartley

Economics Researcher

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Bio:

Jon Hartley is an economics researcher studying finance, labor, and macroeconomics. He is currently an economics PhD Candidate at Stanford University, a Research Fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP), a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and a Research Associate at the Hoover Institution.

Jon also is the host of the Capitalism and Freedom in the 21st Century Podcast (an official podcast of the Hoover Institution), a member of the Canadian Group of Economists, and serves as chair of the Economic Club of Miami.

Jon is a graduate of the University of Chicago (B.A. in Economics and Mathematics with Honors), from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (M.B.A.), and the Harvard Kennedy School (M.P.P.).

Jon has previously worked at Goldman Sachs Asset Management as a Fixed Income Portfolio Construction and Risk Management Associate and as a Quantitative Investment Strategies Client Portfolio Management Senior Analyst and in various policy/governmental roles at the World Bank, IMF, Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and the Bank of Canada.

Jon has also been a regular economics contributor for National Review Online, Forbes and The Huffington Post and has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Globe and Mail, National Post, and Toronto Star among other outlets. Jon has also appeared on CNBC, Fox Business, Fox News, Bloomberg, and NBC and was named to the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 Law & Policy list, the 2017 Wharton 40 Under 40 list and was previously a World Economic Forum Global Shaper.

Jon also is a passionate football fan in his spare time and once worked as an analytics intern for the Dallas Cowboys and announced a Cowboys draft pick at the 2017 NFL Draft.