Who We Are Visiting Fellows
The Visiting Fellows program brings renowned scholars, policymakers, and practitioners for visits to Chicago Booth. These experts collaborate with Booth scholars and enrich Booth’s research community, while studying issues related to global markets and economic policies.
2025–26 Fellows
Zoë Hitzig
Visiting Fellow
Anthropic Institute
Zoë Hitzig is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and an economist at the Anthropic Institute. She holds a PhD in economics from Harvard.
J. Nellie Liang
Visiting Fellow
The Hutchins Center for Fiscal and Monetary Policy – Brookings Institution
Nellie Liang is a Senior Fellow in The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at The Brookings Institution. She recently served as Under Secretary for Domestic Finance at the U.S. Treasury Department (2021-2025), and also as Chair of the Financial Stability Board Standing Committee on the Assessment of Vulnerabilities (2023-2025). Previously she was a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department, lecturer at the Yale School of Management, and a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Economic Advisors. Liang held a range of positions during three decades at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, including as the first director of the Division of Financial Stability (2010 - 2017). In that position, she oversaw the development of financial stability policies related to risks in financial firms and financial markets and interactions of financial policies with monetary policy. Her recent research has focused on Treasury securities markets, digital assets, the future of money and payments, and bank capital regulations. Liang received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland and a B.A. in economics from the University of Notre Dame..
Past Fellows
To find out more about the visiting fellows and their time spent at Chicago Booth, view the 2025–2026 Year in Review.
Zoë Hitzig (May 28-June 10, 2026)
Anthropic Institute
J. Nellie Liang (October 6-10, 2025)
The Hutchins Center for Fiscal and Monetary Policy - Brookings Institution
Formerly of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
To find out more about the visiting fellows and their time spent at Chicago Booth, view the 2024–2025 Year in Review.
Loretta Mester (April 14-18, 2025)
University of Pennsylvania
Formerly of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Ben Broadbent (October 7-18, 2024)
Formerly of the Bank of England
Charles Evans (All year)
Former President and CEO
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
To find out more about the visiting fellows and their time spent at Chicago Booth, view the 2023–2024 Year in Review.
Charles Evans (All year)
Former President and CEO
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
To find out more about the visiting fellows and their time spent at Chicago Booth, view the 2021–22 Year in Review.
Jonathan Wright (Spring 2022)
Professor of Economics
Johns Hopkins University
Allan Timmerman (Spring 2022)
Dr. Harry M. Markowitz Endowed Chair in Finance and Investing, and Distinguished Professor of Finance
University of California, San Diego
To find out more about the visiting fellows and their time spent at Chicago Booth, view the 2019–20 Year in Review.
Moritz Schularick (Fall 2019)
Professor of Economics
University of Bonn
Adrien Auclert (Fall 2019)
Assistant Professor of Economics
Stanford University
To find out more about the visiting fellows and their time spent at Chicago Booth, view the 2018–19 Year in Review.
Anna Costello (Spring 2018)
Paton and Drebin Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor of Accounting
University of Michigan
To find out more about the visiting fellows and their time spent at Chicago Booth, view the 2017–18 Year in Review.
Itay Goldstein (Fall 2017)
Joel S. Ehrenkranz Family Professor, Professor of Finance
Wharton
Narayana Kocherlakota (Fall 2017)
Lionel W. McKenzie Professor of Economics
University of Rochester
Gustavo Manso (Fall 2017)
Associate Professor of Finance
University of California-Berkeley
Vikrant Vig (Spring 2018)
Professor of Finance
London Business School
To find out more about the visiting fellows and their time spent at Chicago Booth, view the 2016–17 Year in Review.
Anna Gelpern (Spring 2017)
Professor of Law
Georgetown Law
Itay Goldstein (Spring 2017)
Joel S. Ehrenkranz Family Professor, Professor of Finance, Coordinator of PhD Program
Wharton
Mark Lang (Spring 2017)
Thomas W. Hudson, Jr./ Deloitte and Touche Distinguished Professor of Accounting
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Dhananjay Nanda (Fall 2016)
Professor of Accounting
University of Miami
Ziad Obermeyer (Fall 2016)
Assistant Professor
Harvard University
Stephen Redding (Spring 2017)
Harold T. Shapiro*64 Professor in Economics
Princeton University
Mar Reguant (Fall 2016)
Assistant Professor
Northwestern University
Philip Strahan (Fall 2016)
John L. Collins Chair in Finance
Boston College
Ivo Welch (Spring 2017)
J. Fred Weston Distinguished Professor of Finance and Economics
University of California, Los Angeles
To find out more about the visiting fellows and their time spent at Chicago Booth, view the 2015–16 Year in Review.
Nicola Gennaioli (Fall 2015)
Full Professor
Bocconi University
Martin Jacob (Spring 2016)
Professor of Business Taxation
WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
Matteo Maggiori (Fall 2015 and Winter 2016)
Assistant Professor of Economics
Harvard University
Stephen Redding (Spring 2016)
Harold T. Shapiro*64 Professor in Economics
Princeton University
Philip Strahan (Spring 2016)
John L. Collins Chair in Finance
Boston College
Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato (Spring 2016)
Assistant Professor of Economics
Duke University
Rodrigo Verdi (Spring 2016)
Associate Professor of Accounting
MIT
To find out more about the visiting fellows and their time spent at Chicago Booth, view the 2014–15 Year in Review.
Isaiah Andrews (Fall 2014)
Fellow
Harvard Society of Fellows
Christopher S. Armstrong (Spring 2015)
Associate Professor of Accounting
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
Mariano Massimiliano Croce (Winter 2015)
Associate Professor of Finance
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Emmanuel Farhi (Fall 2014 and Spring 2015)
Professor of Economics
Harvard University
Jeremy Greenwood (Spring 2015)
Professor of Economics
University of Pennsylvania
Luigi Guiso (Fall 2014)
AXA Professor of Household Finance
Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF)
James Hamilton (Fall 2014)
Professor of Economics
University of California-San Diego
Guido Menzio (Spring 2015)
Associate Professor, Department of Economics
University of Pennsylvania
William Mayew (Spring 2015)
Associate Professor of Accounting
Duke University, Fuqua School of Business
Rafael Repullo (Fall 2014)
Professor of Economics and Director
Center of Monetary and Financial Studies
Philipp Schnabl (Spring 2015)
Associate Professor of Finance
New York University, Stern School of Business
Heidi Williams (Winter 2015)
Assistant Professor of Economics
MIT
To find out more about the visiting fellows and their time spent at Chicago Booth, view the 2013–14 Year in Review.
Paul Beaudry (Fall 2013)
Professor of Economics
University of British Columbia
Jonathan Berk (Spring 2014)
A.P. Giannini Professor of Finance
Stanford University
Ruben Durante (Fall 2013)
Assistant Professor of Economics
Sciences Po (Paris)
Amanda Pallais (Winter 2014)
Assistant Professor of Economics
Harvard University
Paul Tucker (Spring 2014)
Senior Fellow
Harvard Kennedy School
To find out more about the visiting fellows and their time spent at Chicago Booth, see the 2012–13 Year in Review.
Nathaniel Hendren (Spring 2013)
Economics Department Associate
Harvard University
Richard Holden (Spring 2013)
Professor of Economics
University of New South Wales, Australian School of Business
Daniel Paravisini (Spring 2013)
Reader in Finance (Tenured Associate Professor)
London School of Economics and Social Sciences
Ali Yurukoglu (Fall 2012)
Assistant Professor of Economics
Stanford Graduate School of Business
To find out more about the visiting fellows and their time spent at Chicago Booth, view the 2011–12 Year in Review.
George-Marios Angeletos (Fall 2011)
Professor of Economics
MIT
Stefano DellaVigna (Fall 2011)
Associate Professor of Economics
University of California-Berkeley
Greg Kaplan (Winter 2012)
Assistant Professor of Economics
Princeton University
Ulrike Malmendier (Fall 2011)
Associate Professor of Economics
University of California-Berkeley
Anna Pavlova (Spring 2012)
Associate Professor of Finance
London Business School
Thomas Philippon (Spring 2012)
Associate Professor of Finance
New York University Stern School of Business
Dimitri Vayanos (Spring 2012)
Professor of Finance and Director of the Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market
Dysfunctionality
London School of Economics
Jonathan Vogel (Fall 2011)
Assistant Professor of Economics
Columbia University
Pierre-Olivier Weill (Spring 2012)
Associate Professor of Economics
University of California-Los Angeles
To find out more about the visiting fellows and their time spent at Chicago Booth, see the 2010–11 Year in Review.
Robin Burgess (Spring 2011)
Professor of Economics
London School of Economics
Robert Bushman (Spring 2011)
The Forensic Accounting Distinguished Professor
UNC Kenan-Flagler
Barry Eichengreen (Fall 2010)
George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science
University of California-Berkeley
Oliver Hart (Fall 2010)
Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics
Harvard University
Oleg Itskhoki (Spring 2011)
Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Princeton University
Ron Kaniel (Fall 2010)
Associate Professor
Duke University
Felix Oberholzer-Gee (Spring 2011)
Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
Peter Rossi (Spring 2011)
James Collins Professor of Marketing, Statistics, and Economics
UCLA, Anderson School of Management
Laurence van Lent (Winter 2011)
Professor of Accounting
Tilburg University
Axel Weber (Spring 2011)
Visiting Professor of Economics
Chicago Booth
To find out more about the visiting fellows and their time spent at Chicago Booth, see the 2009–10 Year in Review.
Efraim Benmelech (Fall 2009)
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Harvard University
Justine Hastings (Fall 2009)
Associate Professor of Economics
Yale University
Lasse Pedersen (Spring 2010)
John A. Paulson Professor of Finance and Alternative Investments
NYU Stern School of Business
Sergio Rebelo (Winter 2010)
Tokai Bank Professor of International Finance
Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
Antoinette Schoar (Fall 2009)
Michael Koemer, '49, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance
MIT Sloan School of Management
To find out more about the visiting fellows and their time spent at Chicago Booth, view the 2008–09 Year in Review.
Andrew Abel (Spring 2009)
Ronald A. Rosenfeld Professor; Professor of Finance and Economics
Wharton
Viral Acharya (May 18–29, 2009)
Professor of Finance
NYU Stern School of Business
Manual Amador (Spring 2009)
Assistant Professor
Stanford University
Michael Greenstone (Fall 2008)
3M Professor of Environmental Economics
MIT
Peter Kondor (Spring 2009)
Department of Economics
Central European University
Christian Laux (Fall 2008)
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt
Nancy Qian (Spring 2009)
Assistant Professor of Economics
Brown University
Robert Stambaugh (Spring 2009)
Miller Anderson and Sherrerd Professor in Finance
Wharton
David Strömberg (Spring 2009)
Associate Professor at the Institute for International Economic Studies
Stockholm University
Adam Szeidl (Spring 2009)
Assistant Professor
University of California-Berkeley
To find out more about the visiting fellows and their time at Chicago Booth, see the 2007–08 Year in Review.
Philippe Aghion (Spring 2008)
Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics
Harvard University
Joseph Altonji (Winter 2008)
Thomas DeWitt Cuyler Professor of Economics
Yale University
Nava Ashraf (Fall 2007)
Assistant Professor in the Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets Unit
Harvard University
Nathaniel Baum-Snow (Winter 2008)
Assistant Professor
Brown University
Stephen Haber (Spring 2008)
A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor
Stanford University
Esteban Rossi Hansberg (Fall 2007)
Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Princeton University
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (Spring 2008)
Professor of Economics
Princeton University
Paola Sapienza (Winter 2008)
Associate Professor of Finance, Zell Center Faculty Fellow
Northwestern University
Lakshmanan Shivakumar (Spring 2008)
Associate Professor of Accounting
London Business School
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen (Winter 2008)
Associate Professor of Finance
Northwestern University
Randall Wright (Winter 2008)
James Kim Professor of Economics
University of Pennsylvania
Edward Glaeser (Spring 2007)
Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics
Harvard University
Mikhail Golosov (Spring 2007)
Assistant Professor
MIT
Ricardo Reis (Winter 2007)
Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Department of Economics and Woodrow
Wilson School
Princeton University
Hyun Shin (Spring 2007)
Professor of Economics
Princeton University
John Sutton (Fall 2006)
Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics
London School of Economics
Bengt R. Holmstrom (Fall 2006)
Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology