About Us
Dean Karlan
Dean Karlan is the Frederic Esser Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Economics and Finance at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Previously he was a Professor of Economics at Yale University and an Assistant Professor at Princeton University. As a social entrepreneur, in 2002 he founded and is currently President of Innovations for Poverty Action. IPA has conducted over 830 evaluations with over 600 leading researchers in 51 countries and works throughout the world to help increase the demand for and use of evidence in policy. For his research, Karlan received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from M.I.T. (2002), an M.B.A. and an M.P.P. from the University of Chicago (1997), and a B.A. in International Affairs from the University of Virginia (1990).
Maxwell Karlan
Maxwell Karlan (twitter: @maxkarlan) is an economics major at the University of Chicago. He has been actively following and investing in NFTs and crypto since early 2021. Maxwell formerly co-owned KingdomNFT, a community based crypto investment group and is now an active member of TungstenDAO.