Revana Sharfuddin

Revana Sharfuddin is a Research Fellow at the Labor Policy Project and an Emerging Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Her research centers on labor economics, the evolving nature of work, and how labor markets can adapt to foster growth and mobility for workers with diverse backgrounds and needs. She studies how new technologies diffuse through labor markets, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence, worker outcomes, and the data needed to understand how AI is reshaping employment, wages, job quality, and task design.

Sharfuddin has testified before Congress on AI adoption in the workplace, emphasizing the need for stronger federal measurement of AI use by firms and workers so policymakers can better evaluate its effects on the labor market. Her writing has been published in The Hill, Reason, the Dhaka Tribune, Fox Business, and other outlets, and she writes the Substack Labor Market Matters. Before joining the Mercatus Center, Sharfuddin worked in research roles at institutions including the Hoover Institution, IZA Institute of Labor Economics, and the Cato Institute. She holds a BA in Economics from George Mason University and an MA in Development Economics from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany.