Jon Hartley is an economist specializing in finance, labor economics, and macroeconomics. He is currently a Policy Fellow at the Hoover Institution, an incoming assistant professor of economics at the UT-Austin School of Civic Leadership, a Research Fellow at the UT-Austin Civitas Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP), a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a Regulatory Policy Fellow at the Archbridge Institute, and an Affiliated Scholar at the Mercatus Center. Jon also is the host of the Capitalism and Freedom in the 21st Century Podcast, an official podcast of the Hoover Institution, co-founder of GenerativeAI Research, a member of the Canadian Group of Economists, a member of The Bretton Woods Committee, founding chair of the Economic Club of Miami, and a member of the Economic Club of New York.

Jon has previously worked at Goldman Sachs Asset Management as a Fixed Income Portfolio Construction and Risk Management Associate and as a Quantitative Investment Strategies Client Portfolio Management Senior Analyst . Jon has also worked in various policy/governmental roles at the World Bank, IMF, Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office, U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and the Bank of Canada.