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As ISI's unofficial therapy dog, Batzi, with his stoic calm, charming gaze, and a strong susceptibility to treats, ensures that no one loses their cool in the office.

From conferences and readings to daily office operations, his organizational talent, people skills, and comprehensive overview ensure that processes run smoothly at ISI and events leave a lasting positive impression.

Driven by an interest in societal power structures, he links economic and political analysis to open up new ways of thinking about inequality.

With an analytical eye, academic experience and a sense of structure, she ensures that research at ISI runs smoothly.

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Influenced by many years as a journalist and a keen sense of tone and timing, she gives ISI communication clarity, profile and reach.

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Balancing theoretical rigor with a commitment to accessible research, she explores how wealth concentration shapes social cohesion at ISI.

With organizational flair and an eye for detail, she ensures the smooth execution of events and supports the effective communication of content.

With a combination of critical optimism and a flair for graphic design, she blends structural and creative thinking to visualize sociological research in an accessible and impactful way.

Driven by curiosity, experience, and a belief in good science, he leads the creation of an institute that opens new ways of thinking about inequality.

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The critical political scientist is committed to cross-border and transdisciplinary cooperation and investigates overcoming social and environmental inequalities.

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She combines statistics, survey research, and artificial intelligence to understand how data-based decision-making systems can measure inequality, but also how they can produce it themselves.

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With a focus on international capital flows and offshore financial centers, he analyses developments in the financial sector of tax havens, international real estate investments and their role in internal capital markets of multinational companies and in international tax noncompliance.

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His research focuses on tax and transfer systems, the effects of taxation on businesses, households and income distribution, as well as questions of tax incidence and the development of inequality and equal opportunities.

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With a historical and global perspective, she rethinks tax and social policy and their winners and losers.

With research interests ranging in theoretical and applied econometrics, the statistician and economist focuses on developing statistical methods for the study of inequality and intergenerational mobility.

Steven N. Durlauf is the founding director of the University of Chicago's Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility. He is known for integrating sociological ideas into economic theories of inequality, poverty, and intergenerational mobility.

Sam Friedman is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and a leading scholar of class and inequality, with a particular focus on the cultural dimensions of contemporary class divisions.

Angelina Grigoryeva is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto (Canada), where she is also affiliated with the Data Sciences Institute.

Davide Gritti is a sociologist and research fellowship holder in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento, Italy.

Alexandra (Sasha) Killewald is Professor of Sociology, Director of the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics, and the Robert F. Schoeni Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, USA.

Tali Kristal is a political economist and sociologist whose research focuses on income inequality and the distribution of income between labor and capital. She is a professor of sociology at the University of Haifa, Israel.

Shay O’Brien is a Postdoctoral Associate at the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work at MIT.

Mike Savage is Professorial Research Fellow at the London School of Economics’ International Inequalities Institute, where he was a founding co-Director and served as Director from 2015 to 2020. Since 2019, he has convened the Institute’s Wealth, Elites and Tax Justice research theme, which has had significant academic and policy impact.

Christophe Van Langenhove is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and an Affiliated Researcher at Ghent University (UGent).

Elena van Stee is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and a Fellow in Sociology at Harvard University. She also serves as Managing Editor of Contexts, the American Sociological Association’s public-facing journal.