Jesse Rothstein

Jesse Rothstein is Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Public Policy and the David Pierpont Gardner Chair in Higher Education and directs the Center for Studies in Higher Education. 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 was director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) at UC Berkeley. He co-founded the California Policy Lab in 2017, and served as faculty director of its Berkeley site until 2026.

See the profile in For All, Spring 2026.