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Eric Zitzewitz is a Professor of Economics at Dartmouth. His research interests include prediction markets, asset pricing, forecasting, and regulatory issues in financial services, such as mutual funds. He is a co-inventor on three financial patents on the valuation of international equities and infrequently traded bonds which are owned by ICE Data Services. He has taught at Stanford and Columbia Business School and has held visiting positions at INSEAD, CESifo, and Google.

Dr. Liangfei Qiu is the PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor of Information Systems & Operations Management (ISOM) and University Research Foundation Professor at the Warrington College of Business, University of Florida. He also serves as the Department Chair for the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management. His research focuses on artificial intelligence (AI) and Fintech; social technologies (including social networks, social media, and prediction markets); and platform technologies (such as the sharing and gig economy, e-commerce platforms, and healthcare analytics). He has served as Editor-in-Chief for Decision Sciences Journal (2026 – present), a Department Editor for Decision Sciences Journal (2024 – 2025), an Associate Editor for Information Systems Research (2026 – present), an Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly (2021 – 2024), a Senior Editor for Production and Operations Management (2018 – present), an Associate Editor for Decision Support Systems (2014 – present), and a member of the Board of Editors for Journal of Management Information Systems (2025 – present).

Amanda Fischer is the Policy Director and Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Better Markets. Fischer will oversee the organization’s policy program areas, leading Better Markets’ team of policy experts. With a deep expertise in financial regulation, public policy, and strategic leadership, Fischer is committed to achieving our mission of promoting economic security, opportunity, and prosperity for all Americans.

Before joining Better Markets, Fischer served as the Chief of Staff & Senior Counselor to the Chair of the SEC for the last four years. In those roles, she advised the Chair on agency operations, budgeting, and policy strategy while managing crisis response to major market events and geopolitical developments. Fischer also led engagement with top government officials, industry executives, and international regulatory bodies. Previously, Fischer was the Policy Director at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, where she led a team of economists and policy researchers to develop policy recommendations. Her prior experience includes being Chief of Staff to a member of the House and Policy Advisor to a Senator as well as serving for more than eight years as Deputy Staff Director of the House Financial Services Committee and as a Policy Advisor to the Senate Banking Committee.

Fischer holds a Master in Public Policy from Georgetown University and a Bachelors of Public Policy & Business Administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Thomas Rietz earned his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Iowa. He was a faculty member at Northwestern University before returning to Iowa as a finance faculty member 1993. In addition to being an award-winning teacher, Professor Rietz has received a number of research awards and published in top outlets in a range of fields including: Finance, Economics, Game Theory, Management, Forecasting, Computer Science, Political Science, Law and Multidisciplinary Science. His work has been the subject of many popular press features appearing in such places as: Barron’s, Bloomberg News and Radio, CBS Market Watch, The Economist, The Financial Times, Good Morning America, CNNfn, Reuters, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

Professor Rietz combines theoretical, empirical and experimental work in his research in behavioral economics and finance. Current interest areas include: trust and trustworthy behavior, reputation formation and reformation, rationality of decision making, asset allocation choices and prediction markets. He served three terms as the section head for finance on the executive committee of the Economic Science Association, the professional organization for experimental economists. Professor Rietz is on the Iowa Electronic Markets (IEM) steering committee and uses the IEM in both research and teaching.

Daniel Taylor is the Arthur Andersen Chaired Professor at The Wharton School and director of the Wharton Forensic Analytics Lab, specializing in forensic economics, financial misconduct, and fraud detection. He is a highly regarded scholar whose research has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals and has influenced US securities regulations, including rules concerning insider trading, stock sales, and corporate disclosures. Beyond academia, Taylor has extensive experience working with law enforcement, regulators, and private-sector organizations to detect and deter financial misconduct, including the Department of Justice, EY’s Global Forensic Practice, and Kalshi. At Wharton, he teaches courses on forensic analytics and data analytics, and he holds degrees from the University of Delaware, Duke University, and Stanford University.