Zoë Hitzig is currently at the Anthropic Institute, where she works at the intersection of economic research and frontier AI development.

Her research asks how algorithmic systems are reshaping economic and civic life, and how to design markets and digital infrastructure to protect privacy, support democratic governance, and broadly distribute the benefits fo these technologies. 

Hitzig was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows 2023 to 2026. She received her PhD in economics from Harvard in 2023 and holds a M.Phil from the University of Cambridge. Hitzig is an incoming Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Government and Policy.