Team directory
Team directory
Milan Vivanco, ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow, 2026
Milan Vivanco is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. His research focuses on economic statecraft and the private sector. From 2022-2025, Milan served in the White House and U.S. Department of State. He was previously Assistant Editor at Foreign Affairs magazine. Milan has a master’s degree from Tsinghua University where he was a Schwarzman Scholar and a bachelor’s degree from Yale College.
Jacob Wallace, Assistant Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)
Jacob Wallace is an Assistant Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) at the Yale School of Public Health whose primary research interest is Medicaid. He is a health economist by training and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Prior to that he worked as a policy analyst for the New York State Department of Health in the Office of Health Insurance Programs for three years. His research is focused on the economics of the Medicaid program, with a particular focus on the impact of managed care.
Klaudia Wegschaider, External Postdoctoral Associate (University of Vienna)
Klaudia Wegschaider is an external fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University as well as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Government at the University of Vienna. Her work focuses on the causes and consequences of electoral reforms, especially enfranchisement. Methodologically, she is primarily a qualitative researcher, combining case studies with quantitative and experimental methods. Her work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and other outlets.
Keith Whittington, David Boies Professor of Law
Keith E. Whittington is the David Boies Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Whittington’s teaching and scholarship span American constitutional theory, American political and constitutional history, judicial politics, the presidency, and free speech and the law. He is the author of You Can’t Teach That!
Te Maia Wiki, ISPS Director's Fellow, 2026
Te Maia Wiki is a junior studying Environmental Studies and Political Science. She is interested in climate policy at the intersection of public health and Indigenous governance. She recently led an electrification campaign in Ashland, Oregon, helping pass legislation that reduces greenhouse gas emissions in new construction.
Steven Wilkinson, Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Steven I. Wilkinson (Ph.D., MIT) is dean of Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is the Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies and professor of political science and international affairs at Yale University. Prior to taking up the FAS dean position in January 2025 he served as Henry R.
Kira Wishart, Senior Administrative Assistant
Office Location: 77 Prospect Street
Email: kira.wishart@yale.edu
Itamar Yakir, Postdoctoral Associate
Itamar Yakir is a postdoctoral asssociate with the Democratic Innovations program at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies and with Yale’s Identity and Conflict Lab. He received his Ph.D. in public policy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2023.
Peter Boseong Yun, ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow, 2026
Peter Boseong Yun is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Yale University. His research examines how work is organized and evaluated in contemporary labor markets, with particular attention to the role of technologies and workplaces. Drawing on large-scale survey data, his work explores how job definitions, credentials, and organizational contexts shape economic outcomes. As an ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow, he will examine policy-relevant questions related to skills, work, and evaluation in science- and technology-adjacent settings.