Tiger
Gao
Tiger
Gao
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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.
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):
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
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
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
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.
Blair Effron – co-founder of Centerview Partners
David McCormick – CEO of Bridgewater Associates
Anthony Yoseloff – CIO of Davidson Kempner Capital Management
Andy Golden – CIO of Princeton Investment Company (PRINCO)
Joyce Chang – Global Chair of Research at J.P. Morgan
Christopher Marks – Head of Emerging Markets for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG)
Torsten Slok – Chief Economist of Apollo Global Management and former Chief Economist of Deutsche Bank
Pete Muller – founder of PDT Partners
Stephen Roach – former Chief Economist of Morgan Stanley and Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia
Jacques Bughin – former Director of McKinsey Global Institute
Martin Fleming – Chief Economist of IBM
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
Dan Berkovitz – CFTC Commissioner
Stephanie Avakian – Co-Director of Enforcement at the SEC
Norm Champ – former Director of the Division of Investment Management at the SEC