September 6, 2025 | McNair Hall, Rice University | Houston, TX
Dean Karlan, Frederic Esser Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Economics and Finance and co-director of the Global Poverty Research Lab at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management
Jonathan J. Morduch, Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University and the founder and executive director of the Financial Access Initiative
Conference Organizers
Marcela Aguilar, K. Ramesh, Rimmy E. Tomy and Regina Wittenberg-Moerman
Cyrus Aghamolla, Rice University
Marcela Aguilar, Rice University
Brian Akins, Rice University
Fred Asante, Cornell University
Esther Bailey, University of Houston
Karthik Balakrishnan, Rice University
Hailey Ballew, Rice University
John Daryl Barber, University of Miami
John Barry, Rice University
Sudipta Basu, Temple University
Xinyue Cai, Rice University
Rossella Calvi, Rice University
Jivas Chakravarthy, University of Texas at Arlington
Samuel Chang, University of Chicago
AJ Chen, University of British Columbia
Yaxuan Chen, Cornell University
Jung Ho Choi, Stanford University
Hans Christensen, University of Chicago
Aishwarrya Deore, Georgetown University
James Enright, Rice University
Henry Eyring, Duke University
Petri Ferreira, Rice University
Eric Floyd, University of California San Diego
William Gonzalez, Rice University
Emma Haithcock, Duke University
Hyuna Ham, University of Texas Austin
Sean Higgins, Northwestern University
Gilles Hilary, Georgetown University
Yael Hochberg, Rice University
June Huang, University of Texas Dallas
Kevin Huang, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)
Dean Karlan, Northwestern University
Sadia Khan, University of Warwick
Urooj Khan, University of Texas Austin
Botir Kobilov, University of Texas Dallas
Charlotte Li, Texas A&M University
Gary Lind, University of Pittsburgh
Jonathan Morduch, New York University
Shivaani MV, University of Texas Dallas
Seyoung Park, Georgetown University
Leila Peyravan, Rice University
Audrey Price
Michael Price, University of Alabama
K. Ramesh, Rice University
Ethan Rouen, Harvard Business School
Gurvinder Sandhu, Indian School of Business
Kirti Sinha, University of Texas Dallas
Shiva Sivaramakrishnan, Rice University
Kevin Standridge, University of Utah
Galymzhan Tazhibayev, University of Texas Dallas
Laszlo Tihanyi, Rice University
Rimmy Tomy, University of Chicago
Dushyant Vyas, University of Toronto
Shichu Wang, Rice University
Regina Wittenberg-Moerman, Northwestern University
Yifang Xie, Georgetown University
Joon Sang Yoon, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)
Steve Zeff, Rice University
Gaoqing Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
Xinyu Zhang, Cornell University