Additional Appointees

Chloé Antoine is a PhD candidate in Economics at Institut Polytechnique de Paris. She is visiting the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government as a Research Associate and a Fulbright Fellow, sponsored by Prof. Wolfram Schlenker, Ray A. Goldberg Professor of the Global Food System. Her research focuses on agriculture, biodiversity and international trade. In particular, her work aims at studying the impact of food trade policies on agricultural and non-agricultural biodiversity. Chloé holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Institut Polytechnique de Paris (2023) and a BA from Paris Sciences et Lettres University (2021), where she studied Economics and History as part of a multidisciplinary undergraduate program. E-mail: chloe_antoine@hks.harvard.edu. Website: https://chloeantoine.fr/

Dr. Gal Bitton-Alayof is a postdoctoral researcher at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is also affiliated with the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Center for American Political Studies. Prior to joining M-RCBG, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Tel Aviv University in February 2025, where she was an Azrieli Graduate Fellows Program fellow.

Her research lies at the intersection of international political economy and political psychology, examining how identity, cognition, and institutional context shape financial decision-making and global economic behavior. She studies topics such as financial liberalization, cultural finance, citizen–state interactions in global markets, and public attitudes toward redistribution and welfare policy. She is also broadly interested in how individuals form foreign policy preferences and how voters evaluate international cooperation, especially under conditions of uncertainty, threat, or shifting global alignments. Methodologically, she integrates behavioral experiments, survey research, individual-level decision tasks, and large-N observational data, employing both experimental and quasi-experimental designs to identify the microfoundations of macro-level political and financial dynamics.

Alex Domash works with Professor Larry Summers on US macroeconomic and labor market research. Before joining M-RCBG, he spent five years working at the intersection of research and policy, focusing on development, labor markets, social protection, and trade & investment. He has worked with the World Bank in Uganda, where he collaborated with the Ministry of Education to improve the incentives and performance of public sector workers. He has also been a consultant for the Ministry of Trade and Industry in Ethiopia, where he helped shape Ethiopia’s export promotion strategy, and for the Ministry of Labor and Social Development in Saudi Arabia, where he advised on strategies to increase youth and female participation in the labor market. He is also serves as an Advancing Evidence in Policy Fellow at the Center for Global Development, where his work focuses on improving the use of evidence in U.S. foreign aid and development policy. He holds a Masters in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) from the Harvard Kennedy School. E-mail: alex_domash@hks.harvard.edu

Vidit Doshi is a Research Associate at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. His research interests lie in designing policies aimed at tackling the climate and biodiversity crises. He will be working with Professor Richard Zeckhauser on a project to model the optimal harvesting of trees given growing climate concerns. Before Harvard, he worked on international climate policy in the UK government and helped develop a new G7 initiative to catalyse investment into green infrastructure in developing countries. 

His career began in the British civil service at a time when Brexit was the most immediate crisis and he spent two years preparing for the economic consequences of ‘no deal’ with the EU. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he worked in 10 Downing Street in the Prime Minister’s Office. He completed the Masters in Public Policy at the Kennedy School as a Kennedy Scholar in 2024. He also holds a first-class degree from the University of Oxford in Biology and went on to study Economics at the University of Cambridge as a postgraduate. 

Richard Yarrow is a Research Associate at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center. He was recently a fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and previously the Harvard University Archives, where he ran a university-wide faculty oral history program. His research focuses on science, economics, and political thought in modern China and Germany. Yarrow has also worked or studied at think tanks across the political spectrum including the Center for American Progress, Urban Institute, and American Enterprise Institute. He studied intellectual history and philosophy at Harvard University, where he received the Sophia Freund Prize. His faculty sponsor is Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor. Email: ryarrow@fas.harvard.edu