We are excited to announce the AEA Mentoring and Networking Luncheon, prompted by your feedback from the recent post-ASSA survey. This event is designed to connect economists at all stages of their careers, including graduate students, with senior-level economists in their fields.

Join us at the ASSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco on January 4, 2025, for a buffet lunch and meaningful conversations. Attendees will be seated at tables of ten, each featuring at least one senior-level economist, organized around various engaging topics.

The luncheon is shaping up to be a great event, and we are pleased to confirm the following distinguished mentors so far: 

Abi Adams, University of Oxford
Randall Akee, University of California, Los Angeles
Isaiah Andrews, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Francisca Antman, University of Colorado Boulder
Pol Antràs, Harvard University
Matthew Backus, University of California, Berkeley
Amanda Bayer, Swarthmore College
Francesco Bianchi, Johns Hopkins University
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University
Steve Cicala, Tufts University
Janet Currie, Princeton University
Lucas Davis, University of California, Berkeley
Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
John Friedman, Brown University
Laura K. Gee, Tufts University
Edward Glaeser, Harvard University
Rema Hanna, Harvard University
Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago
John Horton, MIT Sloan School of Management
Guido Imbens, Stanford University
Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics
Urban Jermann, University of Pennsylvania
Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Brown University
Lawrence Katz, Harvard University
Amanda Kowalski, University of Michigan
Kory Kroft, University of Toronto
Kevin Lang, Boston University
John List, University of Chicago
Qingmin Liu, Columbia University
Erzo Luttmer, Dartmouth College
Lisa Lynch, Brandeis University
Conrad Miller, University of California, Berkeley
Nathan Nunn, University of British Columbia
Christina Romer, University of California, Berkeley
David H. Romer, University of California, Berkeley
Marzena Rostek, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Heather Royer, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ayşegül Şahin, Princeton University
Andres Santos, University of California, Los Angeles
Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lara Shore-Sheppard, Willaims College
Melvin Stephens, University of Michigan
Ludwig Straub, Harvard University
Chris Walters, University of California, Berkeley

Pricing for the luncheon is $30 for students and $60 for all others. For more details and to explore the planned topics, register now at https://conf.aeaweb.org. Don’t miss this exciting event, along with over 500 other sessions, panel discussions, poster presentations, and more!

If you have already registered for the conference but haven’t signed up for the luncheon yet, it isn't too late. Get your ticket now by logging into your conference account, clicking the 'Make Changes' button, and selecting the AEA Mentoring and Networking Luncheon. If you have any issues signing up, please email assa@vanderbilt.edu for assistance. 

For additional information about the 2025 ASSA Annual Meeting, please visit https://www.aeaweb.org/conference.