Economic Outlook Speakers

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. 

The Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, Zingales is currently a faculty research fellow for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow for the Center for Economic Policy Research, and a fellow of the European Governance Institute. He has been the director of the George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State since 2015.

Romesh Vaitilingam, founder and editor-in-chief of the Economics Observatory and a founding member of the editorial board of VoxEU, is an economics writer and communications consultant. Romesh has advised a number of government agencies and international institutions, including the European Central Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the UK's Department for International Development. His work also involves consultancy for the economic research community, notably advising the European Economic Association, the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE and the Centre for Economic Policy Research on the management and development of their public profile; managing the CCGM Forum and Chicago Booth surveys of economic and finance experts.