Anna Harvey is President of the Social Science Research Council; Professor of Politics, Affiliated Professor of Data Science and Law, and Director of the Public Safety Lab at New York University; and Co-Director of the Criminal Justice Expert Panel. The Public Safety Lab works with teams of social scientists and data scientists to support more effective and equitable criminal justice practices. Its projects include the Jail Data Initiative, a large-scale effort to collect and report daily individual-level jail records in over 1,300 county jails in the United States, and the Prosecutorial Reform Initiative, a collaborative effort with district attorney’s offices to develop more effective and equitable prosecutorial policies. Professor Harvey is the author of two scholarly books and a co-authored casebook on judicial decisionmaking, in addition to numerous peer-reviewed articles.

Stuart Buck is senior advisor at the Social Science Research Council. As a vice president at Arnold Ventures for nine years, Stuart Buck funded renowned work showing that scientific research is often irreproducible. His work has been featured in Wired, the Economist, the New York Times, and the Atlantic, among many others. He has advised the GAO on how to improve federally funded research, consulted the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to design a conference on reproducibility, advised the John Oliver show on an episode about scientific reproducibility, and lectured at DARPA and IARPA.

Maya Chandrasekaran is an applied economist who specializes in impact evaluations, global health, and ethical and effective survey-based research. Her research has primarily focused on the gendered impacts of the energy transition in low- and middle- income countries and especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Her work has appeared in Energy Economics, Environmental Research Letters, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Global Public Health. Maya holds a PhD in Environmental Economics from Duke University and a BS in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University. She pursued a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina where she primarily worked on a United Nations commission for the economic value of water and a practitioner's book on the value of time in low- and middle-income countries, soon to be published with Oxford University Press.