The $200,000 prize, the first ever awarded by MIT in the area of financial policy, will be given biennially starting in the spring of 2020.

Golding, a former head of the Federal Housing Administration, will help lead in the mission to support governments in their role as financial institutions and regulators of the financial system.

The team will be honored at the GCFP annual conference in September in Cambridge, MA.

Former division chief at International Monetary Fund will focus on financial regulation research

Annual Reviews, MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy (GCFP) and NYU Stern will convene to present new review articles focused on the 2008 financial crisis.

MIT Sloan School of Management will host an MIT Sloan Idea Exchange alumni conference on April 25, 2019 in New York City.

$200,000 prize will be awarded to Dr. Fischer and a fellowship named in his honor will be awarded to an MIT Sloan MBA student; Dr. Fischer will deliver the inaugural Miriam Pozen Address at MIT.

Judges are Mohamed A. El-Erian, Kristin J. Forbes, Deborah J. Lucas, Robert C. Merton, Ronald P. O’Hanley, Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Raghuram R. Rajan, and Robert Zoellick.

Former SEC chief economist will help shape financial regulation research