Amir Sufi

Prof. Amir Sufi is the Bruce Lindsay Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University ofChicago Booth School of Business in Chicago. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau ofEconomic Research. He serves as an associate editor for the American Economic Review, the Journal ofFinance and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Prof. Sufi was awarded the 2017 Fischer Black Prize by the American Finance Association, given biennially to the top financial economics scholar under the age of 40. His research focuses on finance and macroeconomics, and his research on household debt and the economy forms the basis of a book he co-authored, House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again, which was published by theUniversity of Chicago Press in 2014. Prof. Sufi joined the Chicago Booth faculty in 2005. He received his B.S. in economics from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service in 1999 and hisPh.D. in economics in 2005 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was awarded the Solow Endowment Prize for Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching and Research.