Organizers

David A. Singer is the Department Head and Professor of Political Science at MIT.
He studies international political economy, with a focus on international financial
regulation, and the influence of global capital flows on government policymaking,
international institutions and governance, and the political economy of central
banking. 
He is the author of Regulating Capital: Setting Standards for the International
Financial System
(Cornell University Press, 2007). 

He can be reached at dasinger@mit.edu.

In Song Kim is the Class of 1956 Career Development Associate Professor of
Political Science. His research interests include International Political Economy
and Formal and Quantitative Methodology, focusing on the political economy of firms'
lobbying, estimation of political preferences, and causal inference with panel data. 

He can be reached at insong@mit.edu

Mariya Grinberg is an Assistant Professor of Political Science. Her research interests include the International Political Economy of Security and wartime trade. Her primary research specifically examines why states trade with their enemies.

She can be reached at mgrin@mit.edu

Richard Nielsen is an Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT. He studies
Islam, political violence, human rights, economic development, and research
methods. His book,
Deadly Clerics (Cambridge University Press), uses statistical text
analysis and fieldwork in Cairo mosques to understand the radicalization of jihadi clerics in the Arab world.

He can be reached at rnielsen@mit.edu