Announcing WC2025 Mentoring Initiative - Supporting Professional Development

We are pleased to announce the establishment of a new Econometric Society standing committee - The Committee for Supporting Professional Development.

The committee’s mandate is to identify and help implement initiatives to support researchers’ professional development across Econometric Society regions. We anticipate that initiatives would include creating mentoring structures, strengthening networks for researchers and improving institutions to ensure ethical and accountable professional relationships. The members of the standing committee are Rohini Pande (Chair), Marcela Eslava, Raffaella Giacomini, Jessica Pan, and Leonard Wantchekon. I thank them for agreeing to serve on this committee.

The creation of the committee was recommended by a working group consisting of Rachel Griffith, Gilat Levy, Bart Lipman, Rohini Pande and me, and was approved by the Executive Committee of the ES. I am grateful to the working group members for their excellent work. The working group also proposed that the committee implement an initiative to mentor young researchers seeking to submit papers to the Econometric Society’s 2025 World Congress. This will mark the committee’s inaugural initiative.

The ES 2025 World Congress mentoring initiative will match junior scholars (postdoctoral researchers, assistant professors, or untenured associate professors) with mentors (senior scholars). The goal is for the mentor to provide feedback to their mentee on their planned paper submission for the Econometric Society World Congress meetings. The hope is that this feedback helps them clear the bar for acceptance into the scientific program of Econometric Society meetings.