Jesse Rothstein

Jesse Rothstein holds the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also Professor of Economics. He is the co-director of the California Policy Lab, which he co-founded, with Till von Wachter, in 2017. He serves on the boards of the Society of Labor Economists and the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. He previously served as Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor and as Senior Economist with the Council of Economic Advisers, Executive Office of the President. From 2015-2020, he served as director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) at UC Berkeley.