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The team

Implicitly, the RePEc team is huge, as it encompasses all the volunteersofRePEc, including allarchive maintainers as well as otherhelpful people. Here, we wish to give somebackground information about the people most involved in this undertaking.

JoséManuel BarruecoCruz

JMBC is librarian at the University of Valencia in Spain. He has beeninvolved very early inWoPEc (now defunct) andhas written a large chunk of the software used for the first versions of IDEAS as well. He alsobuilt some of the initial critical mass in online papers by simply surfingthe net and adding material to RePEc. He is now mostly involved inCitEc, which provides citation analysis of the works listed in RePEc.
RePEc blog post about José Manuel Barrueco Cruz

ChristopherF. Baum

Kit is Professor of Economics and Social Work at Boston College. He hasbeeninstrumental in coding scripts that produce RePEc materials fromweb-basedworking paper and journal article listings for a number of RePEcseries,including some of the major commercial publishers that participate in RePEc. Kit proposed theinclusionof software components in RePEc, and manages the largest archive ofsoftware components (to which he often contributes Stata componentsfor time series econometrics). He also does publicity for RePEc, isthe proprietor of the repec.org domain, and he responds to our hotline.
RePEc blog post about Kit Baum

Christian Düben

Christian is an economist at the University of Hamburg. He takes care ofCollEc, the project that analyzes the co-authorship network in RePEc.

SuneKarlsson

Sune is Professor of Statistics at Orebrö University on Sweden. He runs the Swedish Working Paper Archive,SWoPEc, one of the founding members ofRePEc. He is also in charge of the scripts used for updating the databasecontents of most RePEc participants. He is in charge ofLogEc, which houses lots of statisticsabout RePEc, and ofEconPapers. He finally maintains a set of web-based tools that help archive maintainers with the accuracy of the data they contribute.
RePEc blog post about Sune Karlsson.

ThomasKrichel

Thomas is the one who started it all, before most of us even knew aboutthe web. While Lecturer of Economics at the University of Surrey in 1993,he setupNetEc, the precursor toRePEc. He coordinates many activities and maintains the protocols we use. He is also our liaison torelated initiatives in other disciplines. He currently also maintains the software forNEP and theRePEc Author Service, in addition to being the system administrator to several machines.
RePEc Blog post on Thomas Krichel

Stan Miles

Stan teaches at Thompson Rivers University in Canada and does some monitoring forNEP: he checks that editors work diligently, wakes them up if necessary and checks that the occasional ads in the NEP reports look right.

Marco Novarese

Marco is researcher at the University of Piemonte Orientale (Italy). He directsNEP, in particular recruits and selects its editors.
RePEc blog post about Marco Novarese

Volker Schallehn andJoachim Winter

Volker is Librarian and Joachim is Professor at the University of Munich, Germany. They co-manage theMunich Personal RePEc Archive (MPRA) that allows authors without access to an institutional RePEc archive to upload their works.
RePEc blog post about Volker Schallehn

ChristianZimmermann

Christian is Assistant Vice President at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He is in charge of theIDEAS,EDIRC,RePEc Genealogy andRePEc Biblio sites, monitorsauthor registration and does some P.R. He is also in charge of theRePEc Input Service and of the monthly mailings to archive and series maintainers, editors and authors.

Alumni

The following participated in critical aspects of the development of RePEc and have since moved to other projects.

Bernardo Batiz-Lazo

Bernardo was closely involved with the academic aspects ofNEP (ourannoucementservice) almost since its inception until 2007.
RePEc blog post about Bernardo Batiz-Lazo

Christian Calmès

Christian is teaching at the Université du Québec en Ouataouais and was involved inNEP coordination.RePEc blog post about Christian Calmès

Kyle Fluegge

Kyle is a PhD student in Agricultural Economics at Ohio State University and he generated every week the the set of papers that are sumbitted toNEP editors.

MarkusKlink

Markus started collaborating while working on his Master's at the University of Mannheim, Germany. He started with theRePEc author registration.

IvanKurmanov

Ivan graduated in Economics at Belarussian State University and has worked over ten years as software developer for RePEc. Ivan hasprogrammed some of the "invisible" scripts used by RePEc that help useveryday in our tasks. He was also the main programmer for theRePEc author registration.
RePEc Blog post on Ivan Kurmanov

Victor Lyapounov

SergeiParinov

Vic and Sergei are with the Russian Academy of Sciences (Siberian Branch),where they maintained a Russian mirror of RePEc calledSocionet.

Féthy Mili

Féthy is documentalist at the departments ofEconomics and of Industrial Relations of the University of Montreal. Hestarted around 1988 to catalog the holdings of his working paper libraryon theInternet. This catalogue gave NetEc much of its critical mass. Most handles starting with archivecodefth are from him.

RobertParks

Bob is Professor of Economics at Washington University, St.Louis. He started the popular but now defunct Economics Working Paper Archive (EconWPA), whose listings were alsoincluded in NetEc, and then RePEc, very early on. Bob has been critical in providing the project with advice and lots of hardware.

Ekkehart Schlicht

Ekkehart founded MPRA and managed it for the first years.
Blog post about Ekkehart Schlicht

Roman Shapiro

Roman is a software developer in Novosibirsk, Russia. Roman was responsible for a lot of the coding that helps editors createNEP reports.

Laura Nicola-Gavrila

Laura is Professor of Management at Universitatea Spiru Haret in Romania. Her duty was to prepare the weekly list of new working papers that is sent for approval toNEP editors.
Blog post about Laura Stefanescu