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
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 Brookings. From July 2021 to January 2025, she served as under secretary for domestic finance at the U.S. Treasury Department. Previously Liang served as 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. Over three decades at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Liang held a range of positions, including as the first director of the Division of Financial Stability from 2010 to 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 the financial system and macroeconomic growth. 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 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.
(Spring 2022)
Professor of Economics
Johns Hopkins University
(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
(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
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(Fall 2017)
Joel S. Ehrenkranz Family Professor, Professor of Finance
Wharton
(Fall 2017)
Lionel W. McKenzie Professor of Economics
University of Rochester
(Fall 2017)
Associate Professor of Finance
University of California-Berkeley
(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.
(Spring 2017)
Professor of Law
Georgetown Law
(Spring 2017)
Joel S. Ehrenkranz Family Professor, Professor of Finance, Coordinator of PhD Program
Wharton
(Spring 2017)
Thomas W. Hudson, Jr./ Deloitte and Touche Distinguished Professor of Accounting
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
(Fall 2016)
Professor of Accounting
University of Miami
(Fall 2016)
Assistant Professor
Harvard University
(Spring 2017)
Harold T. Shapiro*64 Professor in Economics
Princeton University
(Fall 2016)
Assistant Professor
Northwestern University
(Fall 2016)
John L. Collins Chair in Finance
Boston College
(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 .
(Fall 2015)
Full Professor
Bocconi University
(Spring 2016)
Professor of Business Taxation
WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
(Fall 2015 and Winter 2016)
Assistant Professor of Economics
Harvard University
(Spring 2016)
Harold T. Shapiro*64 Professor in Economics
Princeton University
(Spring 2016)
John L. Collins Chair in Finance
Boston College
(Spring 2016)
Assistant Professor of Economics
Duke University
(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.
(Fall 2014)
Fellow
Harvard Society of Fellows
(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
(Fall 2014 and Spring 2015)
Professor of Economics
Harvard University
(Spring 2015)
Professor of Economics
University of Pennsylvania
(Fall 2014)
AXA Professor of Household Finance
Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF)
(Fall 2014)
Professor of Economics
University of California-San Diego
(Spring 2015)
Associate Professor, Department of Economics
University of Pennsylvania
(Spring 2015)
Associate Professor of Accounting
Duke University, Fuqua School of Business
(Fall 2014)
Professor of Economics and Director
Center of Monetary and Financial Studies
(Spring 2015)
Associate Professor of Finance
New York University, Stern School of Business
(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
(Spring 2014)
A.P. Giannini Professor of Finance
Stanford University
Ruben Durante (Fall 2013)
Assistant Professor of Economics
Sciences Po (Paris)
(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.
(Spring 2013)
Economics Department Associate
Harvard University
(Spring 2013)
Professor of Economics
University of New South Wales, Australian School of Business
(Spring 2013)
Reader in Finance (Tenured Associate Professor)
London School of Economics and Social Sciences
(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.
(Fall 2011)
Professor of Economics
MIT
(Fall 2011)
Associate Professor of Economics
University of California-Berkeley
(Winter 2012)
Assistant Professor of Economics
Princeton University
(Fall 2011)
Associate Professor of Economics
University of California-Berkeley
(Spring 2012)
Associate Professor of Finance
London Business School
(Spring 2012)
Associate Professor of Finance
New York University Stern School of Business
(Spring 2012)
Professor of Finance and Director of the Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market
Dysfunctionality
London School of Economics
(Fall 2011)
Assistant Professor of Economics
Columbia University
(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.
(Spring 2011)
Professor of Economics
London School of Economics
(Spring 2011)
The Forensic Accounting Distinguished Professor
UNC Kenan-Flagler
(Fall 2010)
George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science
University of California-Berkeley
(Fall 2010)
Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics
Harvard University
(Spring 2011)
Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Princeton University
(Fall 2010)
Associate Professor
Duke University
(Spring 2011)
Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
(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
(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.
(Fall 2009)
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Harvard University
(Fall 2009)
Associate Professor of Economics
Yale University
(Spring 2010)
John A. Paulson Professor of Finance and Alternative Investments
NYU Stern School of Business
(Winter 2010)
Tokai Bank Professor of International Finance
Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
(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.
(Spring 2009)
Ronald A. Rosenfeld Professor; Professor of Finance and Economics
Wharton
(May 18–29, 2009)
Professor of Finance
NYU Stern School of Business
(Spring 2009)
Assistant Professor
Stanford University
(Fall 2008)
3M Professor of Environmental Economics
MIT
(Spring 2009)
Department of Economics
Central European University
(Fall 2008)
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt
Nancy Qian (Spring 2009)
Assistant Professor of Economics
Brown University
(Spring 2009)
Miller Anderson and Sherrerd Professor in Finance
Wharton
(Spring 2009)
Associate Professor at the Institute for International Economic Studies
Stockholm University
(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.
(Spring 2008)
Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics
Harvard University
(Winter 2008)
Thomas DeWitt Cuyler Professor of Economics
Yale University
(Fall 2007)
Assistant Professor in the Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets Unit
Harvard University
(Winter 2008)
Assistant Professor
Brown University
(Spring 2008)
A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor
Stanford University
(Fall 2007)
Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Princeton University
(Spring 2008)
Professor of Economics
Princeton University
(Winter 2008)
Associate Professor of Finance, Zell Center Faculty Fellow
Northwestern University
(Spring 2008)
Associate Professor of Accounting
London Business School
(Winter 2008)
Associate Professor of Finance
Northwestern University
(Winter 2008)
James Kim Professor of Economics
University of Pennsylvania
(Spring 2007)
Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics
Harvard University
Mikhail Golosov (Spring 2007)
Assistant Professor
MIT
(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
(Fall 2006)
Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics
London School of Economics
(Fall 2006)
Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology