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

Jacob Goldin

Richard M. Lipton Professor of Tax Law, The Law School
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

Damon Jones

Associate Professor, Harris Public Policy
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