Aaron “Ronnie” Chatterji, is OpenAI’s first Chief Economist and the Mark Burgess & Lisa Benson-Burgess Distinguished Professor of Business and Public Policy at Duke University. He served as the Biden White House’s CHIPS coordinator, overseeing the execution of the $52 billion CHIPS and Science Act; as Acting Deputy Director of the White House National Economic Council; and as the Chief Economist of the US Department of Commerce. He also served as a senior economist on President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers and on multiple statewide advisory commissions on economic policy in North Carolina. He has published two books and over 30 peer-reviewed articles in top journals in strategic management, economics, finance and organizational studies.