Alex Haralampoudis is a principal research associate in the Tax and Income Supports Division at the Urban Institute, where her work focuses on simulating the effects of social safety net programs using the Transfer Income Model (TRIM3) and the Urban Institute’s Analysis of Transfers, Taxes, and Income Security (ATTIS) microsimulation model.

With more than a decade of experience, Haralampoudis has led large-scale applied research and program evaluation projects at several universities. Most recently, she was the director of data and analytics at the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center at Vanderbilt University, where she oversaw microsimulations and benefit-cost analyses. Her work focuses on the impacts of programs and policies on families living in poverty, often leveraging multidisciplinary and cross-institution collaborations to produce actionable findings. Her research has been published in academic journals and cited in legislative testimony. With particular interest and expertise in state tax policies, she focused her dissertation research on how state tax policies affect families’ well-being, applying advanced training in methods for causal inference to several nationally representative datasets.

Haralampoudis earned a BS in human development from Cornell University, an MSW from the New York University Silver School of Social Work, and a PhD from Rutgers University, where she was a Presidential Fellow.