Anil Kashyap is the Stevens Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. His research focuses on financial intermediation and regulation, the Japanese economy, macroeconomics and monetary policy. He co-founded the U.S. Monetary Policy Forum (the leading private sector conference on US Monetary policy) and is a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow for the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He is a co-director of the Chicago Booth Initiative on Global Markets.
He has advised numerous government and international organizations, including the Cabinet Office of the Japanese Prime Minister, the European Central Bank, the Swedish Riksbank, the International Monetary Fund, the United States Congressional Budget Office and the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago and New York. He has testified before the U.S. Congress and the U.K. Parliament. From 2016 to 2022, he was an external member of the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee.
He has taught courses on Corporation Finance, Advanced Macroeconomics, Understanding Central Banks and Analyzing Financial Crises. He won the Emory Williams Award for Teaching Excellence at Chicago Booth in 2014.
Among the various awards he has received is the “The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon” from the Emperor of Japan and a Sloan Research Fellowship in Economics. He received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Davis and his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
