Catherine Palekar

Catherine Palekar is the Director of Development at the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics. She previously served as Senior Associate Director of Major Gifts covering the Midwest and EMEA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Catherine is passionate about promoting higher education and cutting-edge research through philanthropy. She holds an MBA from Chicago Booth, an MSc. from the University of Edinburgh, and a BA summa cum laude from Saint Louis University.