Katherine McGonagle is Co-Director of FES and Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Dr. McGonagle is a social psychologist with research interests in the areas of survey research methods, health, and well-being.

Narayan Sastry is Co-Director of FES, Director of the FES Child Development Supplement, and Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Sastry's research interests center on social and spatial dimensions of health, development, and well-being of children and adolescents. He is the Co-Director of the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey and is the Director of the Displaced New Orleans Residents Survey.

Esther Friedman is Associate Director of FES and Research Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Friedman is a sociologist and demographer whose research focuses on health and aging, family caregiving, long-term care, and dementia.