Full Name
Julia Lane, Ph.D.
Job Title
Professor Emerita
Company
New York University
Speaker Bio
Julia Ingrid Lane is an economist and data scientist specializing in labor economics research, the creation of public data infrastructures, and the foundations of evidence-based policymaking. She is Professor Emerita at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University (NYU), where she also served a three-year term as a Provostial Fellow for Innovation Analytics.
Among many career achievements and appointments in academia, economics, and public service, Julia also founded the Coleridge Initiative, which works with U.S. government agencies to provide secure infrastructure and training for using administrative data in policy evaluation. The Coleridge Initiative was spun off from NYU as a not-for-profit company in 2020.
Julia was appointed to the National AI Research Resource Task Force (2021–2023), the Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence Building (2020–2022), and the Secretary of Labor's Workforce Innovation Advisory Council (2023–2026). Earlier, she co-chaired the Science of Science Policy Interagency Group under the White House's National Science and Technology Council.
Among many career achievements and appointments in academia, economics, and public service, Julia also founded the Coleridge Initiative, which works with U.S. government agencies to provide secure infrastructure and training for using administrative data in policy evaluation. The Coleridge Initiative was spun off from NYU as a not-for-profit company in 2020.
Julia was appointed to the National AI Research Resource Task Force (2021–2023), the Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence Building (2020–2022), and the Secretary of Labor's Workforce Innovation Advisory Council (2023–2026). Earlier, she co-chaired the Science of Science Policy Interagency Group under the White House's National Science and Technology Council.
