Laura Kodres
Dr. Laura E Kodres is the
Distinguished Senior Fellow for the Golub Center for Finance and Policy at the
MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to her appointment at MIT, she was a
senior official at the International Monetary Fund, serving in several
Departments during her 24-year career there. During 2007-2013 she was an
Assistant Director and Division Chief for the Global Financial Stability
Analysis Division in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department. There she
oversees the analytical chapters of the IMF’s Global Financial Stability
Report. She holds a B.S. in Economics from the University of California at
Davis and a PhD in Economics from Northwestern University in Evanston,
Illinois. She has held positions at First National Bank of Chicago (presently
JP Morgan Chase & Co) and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Dr. Kodres became a Finance
Professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in 1989.
In 1992, she took a position as an Economist at the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission and then at the Federal Reserve Board. She has published papers on a
number of financial topics, including contagion and behavioural finance, in
the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, and
the Journal of Business.
Laura Kodres