Meet the BoardThe four member elected board brings a diverse background of public and private sector experience.
Board members serve for four one year rotations as secretary, treasurer, vice president, and president. |
The Board
Samrat Bhattacharya, President
Samrat Bhattacharya is a Senior Economist at Amazon with experience in working across various functional areas including marketing, finance / asset Management, logistics analysis, workforce capacity planning, international Finance and labor economics. Prior to joining Amazon in 2016, Samrat worked over 10 years in the financial services industry. He was working as a senior business analytics manager at PNC bank, where he helped to build a framework to optimally allocate marketing budget across products, channels and geographic regions to maximize the return on investment. Samrat earned a Ph.D. in Economics from The Ohio State University, with concentrations in labor economics and econometrics. He also has a M.A. and M.Phil from the Delhi School of Economics, India.
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Taylor Marr, Vice President
Taylor Marr is a senior economist, data scientist, and visualization expert at Redfin, the tech-powered real estate brokerage. Marr analyzes and reports on trends in housing affordability, urban planning, and migration patterns in the United States. He also pays special attention to the national economy and new construction trends with a constant pulse on census data. Marr’s key research includes a compilation and analysis of national data on evictions, highlighting the scale of the issue and possible solutions. He also produces a quarterly analysis of US migration patterns based on an algorithm he built using Redfin.com user search data. Marr holds an MA in international and development economics from the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany and a BS from the University of South Dakota.
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Olga Yang, Treasurer
Olga Yang is a Senior Commercial Property & Casualty Underwriter for The Hartford Ins Co. In 2005, she joined the Visiting Committee in the UW Economics Department; serving as Chair of the Committee from 2008 to 2010; and is currently a member of the Executive Committee. Olga has been both a leader and participant in the Economics mentor program since its founding in 2011 and has helped to grow it to over 100 active participants. She was instrumental in the creation of the Zabriskie endowment, to ensure perpetuation of this mentorship; as well as supporting the Yanlan and Robert Yang undergraduate scholarship. She currently serves the UW Brotherhood Initiative program as a steering committee member. In short, Olga is fervently committed to the cause of education.
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Tom Goodwin, Secretary
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