Nitzan Tzur Ilan is a Research Economist in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Before joining the Federal Reserve System, she was a postdoctoral fellow in Finance at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. Her research focuses on household finance, real estate, financial regulation, and climate change. She received her PhD in Finance from the Hebrew University in 2018. From 2014 to 2020, she worked at the Research Department of the Central Bank of Israel.