Jon Hartley
Assistant Professor
Jon Hartley is an economist specializing in finance, labor economics, and macroeconomics. He is a policy fellow at the Hoover Institution, an incoming assistant professor of economics at the School of Civic Leadership, a research fellow at the Civitas Institute, a senior fellow at FREOPP and the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a regulatory policy fellow at the Archbridge Institute, and an affiliated scholar at the Mercatus Center. He is also host of the Capitalism and Freedom in the 21st Century podcast, an official podcast of the Hoover Institution, and cofounder of GenerativeAI Research.
Hartley has previously worked at Goldman Sachs Asset Management and in policy and governmental roles at the World Bank, the IMF, the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, the Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office, the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and the Bank of Canada. He has testified before Congress and contributed to major news outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and USA Today. He was named to the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 Law and Policy list and the 2017 Wharton 40 Under 40 list. Outside his academic and policy work, he is a passionate football fan and once worked as an analytics intern for the Dallas Cowboys.
Education
BA in economics and mathematics with honors, University of Chicago
MBA, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
MPP, Harvard Kennedy School
PhD candidate in economics, Stanford University
