Advisory Council
Paul Alivisatos
President of the University of Chicago; John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor, the Department of Chemistry
Daniela Fusco Alcaro
Co-founder and Co-CEO of Stima Energia
UChicago Scholar
Katherine Baicker
Provost of the University of Chicago and Emmett Dedmon Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
David Booth
Executive Chairman, Dimensional Fund Advisors
Ted Brandt
Chief Executive Officer, Marathon Capital
Claudio Haddad
Founder and Chairman of the Board, Insper
Rebecca Jarvis
Chief Business, Technology & Economics Correspondent, ABC News
Rohit Kumar
Partner, PDT Partners
Chuck McQuaid
Co-Founder, Former Chief Investment Officer, Columbia Wanger Asset Management
Guity Nashat (Becker)
Professor Emerita of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
Hank Paulson
Founder and Chairman, Paulson Institute
Richard Ronzetti
Retired Partner and Global Head of Investment Analysis and Asset Management, Marathon Asset Management
Andrew M. Rosenfield
President, Guggenheim Partners LLC
Richard Ryan
Advisory Council Member Emeritus; Former President and Chief Operating Officer, DEKALB Genetics
Álvaro Saieh
Founder of CorpGroup, Vice Chairman of SMU S.A.
Jorge Andrés Saieh Guzmán
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Corpgroup Holdings, Itaú-Corpbanca Chile, Consorcio Periodistico de Chile S.A. and Vivocorp Real Estate Company
Steven Strongin
Senior Advisor, Global Investment Research, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Hodson Thornber
Renaissance Capital, Retired Managing Director
MarrGwen Townsend
Co-Founder, Townsend Analytics & Archipelago
Jason Tyler
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Northern Trust
Donald R. Wilson, Jr.
Founder and CEO, DRW
Professor Y.C. Richard Wong
Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Chair of Economics, Philip Wong Kennedy Wong Professor in Political Economy, Hong Kong University
Governing Council
UChicago Scholar
Katherine Baicker
Provost of the University of Chicago and Emmett Dedmon Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
UChicago Scholar
Thomas J. Miles
Dean and Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law and Economics, Law School
Madhav Rajan
Dean and George Pratt Shultz Professor of Accounting, Booth School of Business
UChicago Scholar
Robert Shimer
The George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics
UChicago Scholar
Pietro Veronesi
Chicago Board of Trade Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Amanda Woodward
Dean and William S. Gary Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology, Division of the Social Sciences
Research Council
UChicago Scholar
Stéphane Bonhomme
Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor in Economics and the College, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics; Co-Director of BFI Big Data Initiative
UChicago Scholar
Veronica Guerrieri
Ronald E. Tarrson Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Willard Graham Faculty Scholar, Chicago Booth; Co-Director of BFI Macroeconomic Research Initiative
UChicago Scholar
Ali Hortaçsu
Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor of Economics, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics; Co-Director of BFI Industrial Organization Initiative
UChicago Scholar
Greg Kaplan
The Alvin H. Baum Professor in Economics and the College, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics; Co-Director of BFI Macroeconomic Research Initiative
UChicago Scholar
Magne Mogstad
The Gary S. Becker Professor in Economics and the College, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics; Director of BFI Ronzetti Initiative for the Study of Labor Markets
UChicago Scholar
Stefan Nagel
Fama Family Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Booth School of Business
UChicago Scholar
Konstantin Sonin
John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor, Harris Public Policy; Co-Director of BFI Political Economics Initiative
UChicago Scholar
Amir Sufi
Bruce Lindsay Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Booth School of Business
UChicago Scholar
Chad Syverson
George C. Tiao Distinguished Service Professor, Booth School of Business; Co-Director of BFI Industrial Organization Initiative
Leadership & Staff
UChicago Scholar
Erik Hurst
Frank P. and Marianne R. Diassi Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and John E. Jeuck Faculty Fellow, Chicago Booth; Director, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Benjamin Krause
Executive Director, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Faidat Brimah
Deputy Executive Director, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
David Fettig
Senior Director of Policy, Communications, and Outreach, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Camille Andres
Executive Assistant, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Emma Byerwalter
Events Coordinator, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Amy Elliot-Meisel
Becker Friedman Institute for Economics, Assistant Director of the Pre-doctoral Fellows Program
Tauresha Florence
Finance Administrator, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Ava Gomez
Communications and Events Marketing Coordinator, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Eric Hernandez
Senior Officer of Digital Media and Data Visualization, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Grace Higgins
Events Coordinator, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Abby Hiller
Economics Writer, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Quentin Johnson
Director of Diversity and Inclusion Programs , Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Apryl Richard Paige
Administrative Assistant, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Mariella Quiroz
Finance Coordinator, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Maia Rabenold
Senior Multimedia Specialist, Coordinator of Diversity and Inclusion Programs, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Colleen Reda
Senior Grants and Contracts Manager, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Yasamin Sabeti
Senior Manager of Events, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Reem Shammoka
Assistant Director of Human Resources, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Michelle Skinner
Director of Research Support Programs, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Jessie Snyder
Events Manager, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Rekaa Thiagarajan
Senior Finance Administrator, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Bryant Triplett
Operations Coordinator, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Vanessa Vaiphei
Manager of Operations and Visitor Program, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics