Financial Regulation in an Era of Innovation and Disruption

Darrell Duffie is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a past President of the American Finance Association.
In August 2026, he presented his research on tokenized financial markets at the Fed's Jackson Hole Symposium.

Andrew Vrabel, a former commodity merchant and criminal prosecutor, leads a global team of analysts, data scientists, and attorneys dedicated to preserving CME Group’s market integrity and fulfilling its self-regulatory obligations.

Michael Faulkender is the William A. Longbrake Professor of Finance at the University of Maryland's Smith School. In 2025, he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the 16th Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and acting commissioner of the IRS.

Nellie Liang is a senior fellow in The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings. Previously, she served as under secretary for domestic finance at the U.S. Treasury Department from Jul. 2021 to Jan. 2025.

Livio Stracca is the Deputy Director General Macroprudential Policy & Financial Stability at the European Central Bank and an adjunct Professor at the University of Frankfurt J.-W. Goethe. He has degrees in Economics and European Union Law.

Haoxiang Zhu is the Gordon Y Billard Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Co-Director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy. His research focuses primarily on capital markets and asset pricing, with particular…

Hui Chen is the Nomura Professor of Finance and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research focuses on asset pricing and its connections with corporate finance. Chen is particularly interested in the interactions…

Sameena Shah is an MD at JPMC and serves as CIB Operations CDAO and Global Head of Wholesale Client Onboarding & Documentation. She is an award-winning AI leader, recognized by Microsoft, Google, Cloudera, the White House CTO Council and Anita Borg.

Neil Thompson is an Innovation Scholar at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and the Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE). He is also an Associate Member of the Broad Institute.

Antoinette Schoar is the Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management. She holds a PhD is in economics from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from Germany.  Her research interests span from…

Zirui Wang is a Finance PhD student at UT Austin. His research interests include financial intermediation, household finance, financial regulation, forensic finance, FinTech, and real estate. He is on the 2026-27 academic job market.

Daniel Rabetti is a Presidential Young Assist. Prof. of Accounting and Finance at NUS Business School and an ABFER Fellow. He studies how emerging technologies reshape markets and their implications for investors, industry, regulators, and policy.

J. Christina Wang is a principal economist and policy advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Her research interest focuses on the evolution of financial technology and how it affects the organization of financial intermediation.

Yao Zeng is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Wharton and an NBER Faculty Research Fellow. His research studies financial intermediation and innovation and has informed policy at the Fed, SEC, IMF, BIS, ECB, and other central banks.

Tong Yu is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management. His work has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics. He received his PhD in Finance from Imperial College London.

Camelia Minoiu is a research economist at the Atlanta Fed, with extensive policy experience at the FRB and IMF. She studies how financial frictions and policies shape the allocation of credit. She holds a PhD in Economics from Columbia.

  Kerry Siani is the Jon D. Gruber Career Development Assistant Professor in Finance and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Siani does research on capital markets and their interaction with policy and the real…

Shengxing Zhang is an Associate Professor of Economics at CMU's Tepper School of Business. He studies monetary policy transmission and financial market frictions, with work published in Econometrica and the American Economic Review.

Xuelin Li is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Columbia Business School. His research interests include healthcare finance and entrepreneurial finance.

Luboš Pástor is Charles P. McQuaid Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the Booth School of Business. He also serves on the board of directors of Vanguard and the advisory board of the Andersen Institute for Finance & Economics.

Lira Mota is the Victor J. Menezes (1972) Career Development Assistant Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management.  Her research lies at the intersection of asset pricing, macrofinance, and corporate finance. Much of her work examines…