
Faculty & Staff
Adlai Wertman
MBA, University of Pennsylvania; BA, SUNY at Stony Brook

Abby Fifer Mandell
Jill Kickul

Associated Faculty
Paul Adler
PhD, University of Picardie; DEA, EHESS
Christopher Bresnahan
Duke Bristow
PhD, UCLA; MBA, Indiana University; BS, Purdue University
Christine El Haddad
PhD, University of Southern California
Omar El Sawy
PhD, Stanford University; MBA, American University in Cairo; BS, Cairo University
Katharine Harrington
Ph.D., University of Southern California; MBA, Pepperdine University; B.S. Business Administration, Redlands University
Jessica Jackley
MBA, Stanford University; BA, Bucknell University

Steven Lamy
Professor Lamy's areas of research include international relations theory with a focus on the English School traditions, foreign policy analysis with an emphasis on the US and European states and global governance as it pertains to human security and environmental issues. Read more

Gary Painter
Gary Painter is a Professor in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. He also serves as the Director of the Sol Price Center for Social Innovation and the newly created Homelessness Policy Research Institute. He has published numerous articles in top journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Urban Economics, Urban Studies, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and Regional Science and Urban Economics.
Professor Painter’s research interests focuses on social innovation, housing, urban economics, and education policy. He is among the world’s foremost experts on how changing demographics impact U.S. housing markets. Recent work has focused on how immigrants are integrating into housing markets across the U.S. and the role of the economic cycle on household formation. Other recent work has studied immigrant integration issues in spatial labor markets and in education. Current research focuses on how to evaluate social innovation.
He has served as a consultant for the National Association of Realtors, Pacific Economics Group, Andrew Davidson Co., Fannie Mae, Grant Thorton LLP, Burr Consulting, and the Research Institute for Housing America. Read more.
Zivia Wilson Sweeney
MBA, BS, University of Southern California
Therese Wilbur
MBA, University of Southern California; BA, University of St. Thomas