Saieh Family Fellows in Economics

BFI launched the Saieh Family Fellows in Economics program in order to bring together leading, early-career economists to take part in the University’s field-defining approach to economic scholarship. A generous gift from the Saieh Family Fund has permanently endowed the program.

This program builds on the Chicago Research Fellows Program established in 2017 and gives the best and brightest young economists in the world rare opportunities to explore their interests and build rigorous analytical skills prior to assuming their academic appointment. With financial support and freedom from teaching responsibilities, fellows are able to leverage BFI’s unparalleled intellectual resources, expertise, and collaborative community to grow into superbly productive scholars.

Saieh Family Fellowships are highly selective: BFI leadership identifies and recruits only the top candidates on the academic job market each year. Since the program was founded, more than half of the fellows have been invited to join the annual Review of Economic Studies (REStud) tour, which brings a small handful of the world’s most promising graduating doctoral students in economics and finance to present their research to audiences in Europe. Upon completion of the fellowship, researchers go on to academic jobs at the top programs in business and economics, including, among others, Chicago Booth and Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, and Northwestern.

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