Economic Outlook Speakers

Kroszner is the Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics. He served as a governor of the Federal Reserve System from 2006 until 2009. He chaired the committee on Supervision and Regulation of Banking Institutions and the committee on Consumer and Community Affairs. He took a leading role in developing responses to the financial crisis and in undertaking new initiatives to improve consumer protection and disclosure.

Ma is the Carhart Family Professor of Finance and co-director of the Fama-Miller Center for Research in Finance. She is also a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the AQR Institute Young Researcher Award, and the NSF CAREER Award. Her work primarily focuses on empirical studies at the intersection of finance and macroeconomics.

Rajan is the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance. He was the 23rd governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 2013 to 2016. He was also the chief economist and director of research at the International Monetary Fund from 2003 to 2006. 

Cliff Asness is a founder, managing principal, and chief investment officer at AQR Capital Management. He is an active researcher and has authored articles on a variety of financial topics for many publications, including The Journal of Portfolio Management, Financial Analysts Journal, The Journal of Finance, and The Journal of Financial Economics. Prior to co-founding AQR Capital Management, he was a managing director and director of quantitative research for the asset management division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. He is on the advisory board of The Journal of Investment Management and the ambassador board of The Journal of Portfolio Management. He is also a board member of the American Enterprise Institute, the Broad Institute, and Commentary Magazine. Asness received a BS in economics from the Wharton School and a BS in engineering from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating summa cum laude in both. He received an MBA with high honors and a PhD in finance from the University of Chicago, where he was Eugene Fama’s student and teaching assistant for two years.

Hal Weitzman is the executive director for intellectual capital at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He is editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Review and host of The Chicago Booth Review Podcast, a weekly series featuring Booth professors discussing their research. He was a reporter and editor at the Financial Times from 2000 to 2012, the last seven years as a foreign correspondent in South America and Chicago. As well as the FT, his reporting has appeared in The Economist, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Miami Herald, New Statesman, The Irish Times, Slate, and Politico.