Jeremy C. Stein is the Moise Y. Safra Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Economics at Harvard University, where he teaches at both the undergraduate and PhD levels. He also serves on the board of directors of the Harvard Management Company. From 2012 to 2014, Stein was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Earlier, in 2009, he served as a senior adviser to the US Treasury Secretary and worked on the staff of the National Economic Council during the Obama administration.
Stein began his academic career as an assistant professor of finance at Harvard Business School, later spending a decade on the faculty at MIT’s Sloan School of Management before joining Harvard’s economics department in 2000. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Princeton University (summa cum laude) and a PhD in economics from MIT.
His research spans a broad range of topics, including behavioural finance, corporate finance, risk management, banking, financial regulation, and monetary policy. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Financial Advisory Roundtable. He also served as president of the American Finance Association in 2008.
Appointed to the Federal Reserve Board in 2011, Jeremy Stein played a key role in monetary policy and post-crisis financial regulation. He stepped down in 2014 to return to Harvard, bringing with him valuable policy experience to enrich his teaching and research.
