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Deborah Lucas is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy. Lucas’s recent research lies at the intersection of finance and policy, with a focus on…

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…

Simone Cavallaro is the Executive Director of the Golub Center for Finance and Policy (GCFP) at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He brings extensive experience leading academic centers, building strategic initiatives, and translating research…

Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management, and the John and Natty McArthur University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. He was the George Fisher Baker Professor of…

On Sabbatical leave 2026-2027. Jonathan A. Parker is the Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Financial Economics and codirector of the MIT Sloan Consumer Finance Initiative. He is also an economic adviser for the Congressional Budget Office, a…

Andrew W. Lo is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering. He is also a Principal Investigator at the Computer Science and Artificial…

Peter R. Fisher is the Distinguished Senior Fellow at the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy and will be teaching his course The Arrythmia of Finance in the Spring of 2026. From 2005 to 2013, Peter held a variety of roles at BlackRock including…

Niccolo Comati is a Research Associate at the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy. His current work for the Center focuses on the use of financial economics tools for pricing government guarantees. His other areas of interest include asset…