Interdisciplinary Approaches to Financial Stability Conference

Richard Berner is Clinical Professor of Management Practice in the Department of Finance, and, with Professor Robert Engle, is Co-Director of the Stern Volatility and Risk Institute. Professor Berner served as the first director of the Office of…

John R. Birge studies mathematical modeling of systems under uncertainty, especially for maximizing operational and financial goals using the methodologies of stochastic programming and large-scale optimization. He was first drawn to this area by a…

Jeremy Bulow is the Richard A. Stepp Professor of Economics at Stanford Business School. He served as the Director of the Bureau of Economics of the Federal Trade Commission from 1998-2001. Bulow was co-editor of the American Economic Review from…

Doug Burdick believes that a successful mortgage transaction should be accomplished in a timely and efficient manner, which corresponds to the needs of the borrower(s). He will take the time to listen and then use the information you provide to craft…

A Research Engineer with extensive worldwide experience in Electricity Market Platform Design advising companies and governments with problem-solving. Has a strong combination of technical and management skills. Proficient in partnering within and…

John Henry Clippinger is an Advisor to Bancor, Evident, Decentralized Pictures, Atonomi, SkyCoin, Cashaa, and the CryptoAsset Design Group. Previously, he was CEO of ID3 (The Institute for Data Driven Design) and Co-Director of The Law Lab at the…

Joshua Epstein is Professor of Epidemiology in the NYU School of Global Public Health, and founding Director of the NYU Agent-Based Modeling Laboratory, with affiliated appointments at The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and the College…

I am the founding President and CEO of the JPMorgan Chase Institute. The mission of the JPMorgan Chase Institute is to help policymakers, businesses, and nonprofit leaders use better facts, real-time data, and thoughtful analysis to make smarter,…

J. Doyne Farmer is Director of the Complexity Economics programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, Baillie Gifford Professor in the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford and an External Professor at…

Professor Glasserman's research and teaching address risk management, derivative securities, Monte Carlo simulation, statistics, and operations. Prior to joining Columbia, Glasserman was with Bell Laboratories; he has also held visiting positions at…

Jeffrey Golden is a specialist arbitrator, mediator, and expert with broad experience of a wide range of capital markets matters, including swaps and derivatives, international equity and debt offerings, US private placements and listings, and…

Andrew G Haldane is the Chief Economist at the Bank of England and Executive Director, Monetary Analysis and Statistics. He is a member of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee. He also has responsibility for research and statistics across the Bank.…

Sujit Kapadia is Head of Research at the Bank of England. He developed the Bank’s ‘One Bank Research Agenda’, launched in February 2015, and is responsible for its delivery. His own research encompasses macroprudential policy, monetary policy,…

Simon A. Levin is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University and the Director of the Center for BioComplexity in the Princeton Environmental Institute.  His research examines…

Professor Nagel’s research focuses on asset pricing, investor behavior, and risk-taking of financial intermediaries. His most recent work explores the role of personal experiences in shaping expectations about the macroeconomy and financial market…

Dr. Marie-Elisabeth Paté-Cornell is the Burt and Deedee McMurtry Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor and Founding Chair (2000-2011) of the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Her specialty is…

Professor Saigal has held faculty positions at the Haas School of Business, Berkeley and the department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University, has been a researcher at the Bell Telephone Laboratories and…

David Saul serves as the Foisie Business School’s Executive-in-Residence. The Executive-in-Residence program leverages senior-leader experience in business to help the WPI community become the leading business school focused on research and…

Laurie Schaffer is the assistant general counsel for banking and finance at the Treasury Department. She was vice president and general counsel at Charles Schwab before joining Treasury in April 2008. She advises on Treasury's borrowing authorities,…

Til Schuermann is a Partner and Co-Head of Oliver Wyman’s Risk & Public Policy practice in the Americas. He advises private and public sector clients on stress testing, capital planning, enterprise-wide risk management, model risk management, and…

Lawrence H. Summers is President Emeritus of Harvard University. During the past two decades he has served in a series of senior policy positions, including Vice President of development economics and chief economist of the World Bank, Undersecretary…

Sir Paul Tucker is chair of the Systemic Risk Council, a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, and author of Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State (Princeton University Press, 2018). His other activities…

Susan Wachter is Sussman Professor and Professor of Real Estate and Finance at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. From 1998 to 2001, she served as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, U.S. Department of Housing…

David Wessel is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings and director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, the mission of which is to improve the quality of fiscal and monetary policies and public understanding of them. He…