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Bio


Tiger

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Bio


Tiger

Gao

 

Hey, thanks for visiting! 

I'm Tiger – I've been doing stand-up since high school and have performed 40+ shows across various clubs in Chicago, D.C., New York, as well as at Princeton and St. Paul’s School.

 
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Policy Punchline


Policy Punchline

Policy Punchline


Policy Punchline

 

From 2018-2021, I co-founded and hosted Policy Punchline – a weekly updated, long-form, interview podcast with public intellectuals, policymakers, business executives, and entrepreneurs across all fields. All episodes are available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud, Stitcher, Google Play, and most of your preferred podcasting platforms.

We sincerely hope that we are not only producing a top-quality podcast, but also offering insightful perspectives and a unique cultural and academic product to our audiences.

Here’s an incomplete list of guests we’ve interviewed (see most updated verison here):

Economic Policy

  • Austan Goolsbee – former WH Chair of Council of Economic Advisers; Chicago Booth economics professor

  • Alan Blinder – former Vice Chair of Federal Reserve; Princeton economics professor

  • Bill Dudley – former NY Federal Reserve President; senior research fellow at Princeton GCEPS

  • Michael Froman – former U.S. Trade Representative

  • Jeffrey Shafer – former Undersecretary of Treasury for International Affairs

  • Brad Setser – Counselor to the U.S. Trade Representative; former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Treasury for International Economic Analysis

  • Scott Morris – former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Treasury for Development Finance and Debt

  • Michael Hüther – Director of the German Economic Institute

  • Arvind Panagariya – former Vice Chair of NITI Aayog of India, de facto chief economic advisor for Prime Minister Modi; Columbia economics professor

Economics Bestsellers

  • Branko Milanovic – author of Capitalism, Alone; expert on global inequality

  • Robert Frank – author of Under the Influence

  • Katharina Pistor – author of The Code of Capital

  • Rebecca Henderson – author of Reimagining Capitalism

  • William Gale – author of Fiscal Therapy: Curing America's Debt Addiction and Investing in the Future

  • Adam Tooze – author of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

  • Bill Janeway – author of Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Reconfiguring the Three-Player Game between Markets, Speculators and the State

  • Glen Weyl – author of Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

  • Simon Johnson – author of Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream

Journalism

  • Nicholas Lemann – Dean Emeritus of Columbia Journalism School; author of Transaction Man

  • Ian Johnson – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; author of The Souls of China

  • Greg Zuckerman – WSJ financial journalist; author of The Man Who Solved the Market

  • Liam Vaughan – Bloomberg financial journalist; author of Flash Crash

  • Robinson Meyer – co-founder of The COVID Tracking Project; climate writer at The Atlantic


Politics

  • Trey Gowdy – former Congressman from S.C.; former Chairs of the House Oversight and Benghazi Committees

  • Dave Wasserman – House Editor for The Cook Political Report; prominent election forecaster

  • Jim VandeHei – co-founder and CEO of Axios and the former executive editor and co-founder of Politico

  • David Pakman – Host of The David Pakman Show

  • Robert Barnes – constitutional trial lawyer for Alex Jones, the Covington Kids, Ralph Nadar, etc.

Finance & Business

Fundamental Sciences

  • Robert Langer – MIT Institute Professor; the most cited engineer in human history; co-founder of Moderna; head of the Langer Lab at MIT, the largest biomedical engineering lab in the world

  • George Church – Geneticist; founder of the Human Genome Project; pioneer of CRISPR gene editing technology

  • Steven Girvin – Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and former deputy provost for science and technology at Yale; pioneer in quantum mechanics

Financial Regulation