Bruce Gilley comes to New College as a distinguished Professor in Political Science. One of the nation’s foremost scholars on development, democracy, and public policy, including the comparative politics of Asia and China, he has authored five university-press books, including The Right to Rule: How States Win and Lose Legitimacy. Recent academic articles on economics include “Are Pay Equity Policies Justified?" and "Capital Structure and Business Failure: The Collapse of Canada's Dome Petroleum.” Gilley earned his M.Phil. in Economics from the University of Oxford under the supervision of Nobel laureate James Mirrlees, and Ph.D in politics from Princeton University

Tarron Khemraj is a Professor of Economics and International Studies at New College of Florida. He regularly teaches Development Economics, Econometrics, International Economics and other courses. His research falls in the broad fields of open economy macroeconomics, monetary economics and political economy. He is the author of the peer-reviewed book monograph “Money, Banking and the Foreign Exchange Market in Emerging Economies” and his peer-reviewed papers have appeared in Applied Economics, Economic Systems, Eastern Economic Journal, Economic Modelling, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Review of Keynesian Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, Review of Development Economics, among others. He is also the author of numerous book chapters and working papers, as well as
over 300 newspaper columns.

Sean Adams (Ph.D., Wisconsin) is the Hyatt and Cici Brown Professor of History and Interim Associate Dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida, where he teaches classes in the global history of energy, American capitalism, and 19 th Century U.S. History. Adams is the founder and director of Inquire Capitalism program, which supports research on global capitalism and has several public-facing digital research projects on business history. A specialist in the Industrial Revolution, Adams is the author of Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America (Johns Hopkins, 2004), Home Fires: How Americans Kept War in the Nineteenth Century (Johns Hopkins, 2014), and a three-volume anthology entitled The American Coal Industry, 1789-1902 (Routledge, 2013). He is the editor of The Early American Republic: A Documentary Reader (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) and The Companion to the Era of Andrew Jackson (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), as well as numerous articles, reviews, and book chapters. He is currently writing two books, one on the economic and historical value of land in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, as well as a
survey of America’s Industrial Revolution.

Mark Gordon is the Managing Editor of the Business Observer. Mark has been with the Business Observer since 2005. He has written about companies, development, entrepreneurs and how government intersects with business, among other topics. He currently oversees the paper’s coverage from Tampa to Naples, in print and online, overseeing a staff of reporters and photographers, in addition to writing stories. He has written a biweekly leadership column, Leadership Matters, since 2021 in the Business Observer. And in 2023 he began hosting a weekly podcast, the Business Observer: From the Corner Office. The Business Observer is part of the Observer Media Group, which publishes six weekly newspapers across Florida and was founded in 1995. Started in 1997 as the Gulf Coast Business Review, the Business Observer is the leading provider and most authoritative source of business and economic information affecting the Gulf Coast from Polk to Collier counties. It is published in print each Friday, with a daily email newsletter.

Prior to the Business Observer, Mark worked for daily newspapers in upstate New York, suburban Philadelphia and Jacksonville. He lives in east Manatee County with his wife, Elyse, and their 16-year-old son, Aaron.