Ara Kharazian

Ara Kharazian is the Lead Economist at Ramp, a spend management platform, where he analyzes proprietary corporate spend data to produce economic research on business investment trends and AI adoption. He writes the weekly newsletter Econ Lab on Substack and has developed indices such as Ramp's AI Index, which tracks the share of businesses adopting AI tools. His research has been covered in outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and NPR's Planet Money. He previously led economic research at Square and worked as an economic consultant at Cornerstone Research.