Economic Outlook Speakers

The Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics served as a governor of the Federal Reserve System from 2006 to 2009, and was previously deputy dean for executive programs at Booth. He serves as the chair of the financial research advisory committee for the US Treasury’s Office of Financial Research and as a member of the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee.

Lane is a professor at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and an NYU Provostial Fellow for Innovation Analytics. She cofounded the Coleridge Initiative, which aims to transform the way governments access and use data for the social good. She previously served on the Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence Building and the National AI Research Resources Task Force.

Ma is an associate professor of finance and a Fama Faculty Fellow. 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.

Now Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at Chicago Booth, Rajan 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. 

Syverson is the George C. Tiao Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Syverson is also coauthor of the intermediate-level textbook Microeconomics. His research on the interactions of firm structure, market structure, and productivity have been published in several top journals and has earned multiple National Science Foundation Awards.

Kathleen Hays, founder and editor-in-chief of Central Bank Central, covers the US and global economy and the policy makers who run them. As one of the top economics reporters and anchors in the country, she has covered the Federal Reserve for more than 30 years at Reuters, Investors Business Daily, CNBC, CNN, and Bloomberg TV and Radio. More recently, she expanded her reporting and interviews to include not only top Fed officials but also top central bankers in Asia, Europe, and emerging markets. She can be seen, heard, and read on Kathleen Hays Presents: Central Bank Central at Substack.com.

Phillips is a journalist who writes about business, technology, economics, and innovation. He hosts the VoxTalks Economics podcast for the Centre for Economic Policy Research, investigating early-stage economics research. He has written for The Wall Street Journal Europe, The International Herald Tribune, The Times and Sunday Times, The Observer, The Telegraph, The Independent, and The Daily Express, among others.