The Bay Area Council Economic Institute provides a shared platform for leaders to act on key issues affecting the regional economy. It accomplishes this by producing focused analyses on key issues affecting the Bay Area and its future, and by mobilizing regional and state leaders to address those issues, based on working partnerships and a strong foundation of economic and policy analysis.
The strength of the Economic Institute lies in its Board and the relationships and assistance provided by its sponsors and partner organizations throughout the region and the state.
Chair
Mark Duggan
Trione Director of SIEPR
Stanford University
Mark Duggan is the Trione Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics at Stanford. His research focuses on the health care sector and on the effects of government programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. He previously served as the Senior Economist for Health Care Policy at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and was the 2010 recipient of the ASHEcon Medal (awarded every two years to the leading health economist in the U.S. under age 40).
Vice Chair
Libby Schaaf
Mayor
City of Oakland
Mayor Libby Schaaf was inaugurated into office in January 2015. She immediately launched an ambitious agenda to elevate one of America’s most diverse and progressive cities into a more equitable and resilient place to live. Born and raised in Oakland, Schaaf led initiatives to offset the cost of living crisis, reduce crime, improve transit and infrastructure, and expand educational and career opportunities for the city’s most vulnerable residents.
Board Members
Rome Aloise, Executive Vice President, California Federation of Labor
Bob Alvarado, Executive Officer, Northern California Carpenters Regional Council
Mary G. F. Bitterman, PhD, President, The Bernard Osher Foundation
Henry E. Brady, PhD, Dean, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley
London Breed, Mayor, City of San Francisco
Jack P. Broadbent, CEO/Air Pollution Control Officer, Bay Area Air Quality Management District
Keith Carson, Supervisor, District 5, County of Alameda
Cindy Chavez, Supervisor, District 2, County of Santa Clara
Michael Covarrubias, Chairman & CEO, TMG Partners
Diane Dillon, Supervisor, District 3, County of Napa
Rosanne Foust, President & CEO, San Mateo County Economic Development Association
Larry Goldzband, Executive Director, Bay Conservation and Development Commission
Scott Haggerty, Supervisor, District 1, County of Alameda
Sam Hawgood, MD, Chancellor, UC San Francisco
Therese McMillan, Executive Director, Metropolitan Transportation Commission
Mary Huss, President & Publisher, San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal
Chris Iglesias, CEO, The Unity Council
Robert James, Partner and Co-Leader, Energy Industry Team, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Chappie Jones, Councilmember, District 1, City of San Jose
Ted Lempert, President, Children Now
Steve Levy, Director & Senior Economist, Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy
Sam Liccardo, Mayor, City of San Jose
Peter A. Luchetti, Partner, Table Rock Infrastructure Partners
Jeremy Madsen, Program Director, The Energy Foundation
Judy Miner, EdD, Chancellor, Foothill-DeAnza Community College District
Sarita Mohapatra, Principal, PwC
Tomiquia Moss, CEO, All Home
Cynthia L. Murray, President & CEO, North Bay Leadership Council
Julie Pierce, Councilmember, City of Clayton
Rebecca Prozan, Head of Public Affairs, California, Google
Yvette Radford, Vice President, Kaiser Permanente
Brenda Santoro, Head of Trade Services, Silicon Valley Bank
Robert Schroder, Mayor, City of Martinez
Nandini Tandon, PhD, Founder, Tenacity Global Group
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, PhD, President, Stanford University
Laura Tyson, PhD, Director, Institute for Business and Social Impact, Haas School of Business
Jeffrey Welser, PhD, Vice President and Lab Director, IBM – Almaden Research Center
Lawrence Wu, President, NERA Economic Consulting
Jim Wunderman, President & CEO, Bay Area Council
Alternates
Janhavi Bonville, Associate Executive Vice Chancellor, Strategic Initiatives, UC San Francisco
Jose Corona, Director of Equity & Strategic Partnerships, Office of Mayor Libby Schaaf
Nanci Klein, Deputy Director, Office of Economic Development, City of San Jose
Senior Advisors
Christopher DiGiorgio, Board Chair, Tech Museum of Innovation
Jim Henry, San Francisco Market Managing Partner, PwC
Regis B. Kelly, PhD, Director, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), University of California
Lenny Mendonca, Director Emeritus, McKinsey & Company
Past Chairs
Kausik Rajgopal, Senior Partner and West Coast Regional Manager at McKinsey & Company
Laura Tyson, PhD, Director, Institute for Business and Social Impact, Haas School of Business
Lenny Mendonca, Director, Emeritus, McKinsey & Company
Robert Parry, PhD, President & CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Julius R. Krevans, MD, Chancellor, University of California San Francisco
Chang-Lin Tien, PhD, Chancellor, University of California Berkeley