The CFP is pleased to announce the addition of two new and distinguished members, Ms. Carla F. Avila and Dr. Sung Hwan Shin, to its Advisory Board. The CFP Advisory Board convenes annually at MIT, and provides essential oversight, guidance and support to the Center and its mission.

The MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter R. Fisher as our Distinguished Senior Fellow for the 2025-2026 academic year. The former Undersecretary of the U.S. Treasury and BlackRock executive will teach a finance course at MIT Sloan and will contribut...

GCFP appoints Jan Eberly as Distinguished Senior Fellow

With the arrival of a new Congress and a new administration, change may be in store for current and former students who have borrowed to pay for higher education expenses. On the campaign trail, Donald Trump indicated a desire to ease the debt burden carried by former students, and Republicans at ti...

Authors James Freeman and Vern McKinley discuss their research on 200 years of Citi’s history as presented in their 2018 book Borrowed Time. Lunch will be provided.

As part of its Distinguished Speaker Series, the MIT CFP invites you to a lunch talk by Michael Piwowar, SEC Commissioner on Current Issues and Challenges in Securities Regulation

In the past five years, financial regulators have become increasingly attuned to the necessity for cultural change in the financial industry. Recognizing that [...]

As the keynote speaker at a recent conference of the International Consortium on Government Financial Management held in Washington DC, I had the opportunity to discuss with representatives from over 40 countries one of the primary challenges facing governments around the world – citizen engagement.

With employers filling 60 percent fewer management positions and otherwise guaranteed internship opportunities succumbing to budget cuts amid the COVID-19 pandemic, students at MIT Sloan were scrambling ahead of the summer of 2020.

The COVID-19 pandemic damages the U.S. and the world economy and puts policymakers in an unfamiliar dilemma. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as social distancing slow the spread of [...]