Plenary Speakers
Aysegul Sahin
Aysegul Sahin is the Richard K. Gonzalez Regents Chair in Economics at the University of Texas at Austin and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. After beginning her career at Purdue University, she joined the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where she eventually rose to become a Vice President in the Research Department. Professor Sahin has published extensively in macroeconomics–including at the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, and all of the best macro journals–and has delivered pressing insights into the functioning of the labor market.
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Tom Sargent
Tom Sargent is the William R. Berkley Professor of Economics at New York University, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has received numerous accolades for his work, including the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2011 alongside Christopher Sims "for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy." Professor Sargent spent much of his career at the University of Minnesota before moving to the University of Chicago and then to Stanford. His work has appeared in all of the top economics journals and has helped define and re-shape what is now called modern macro.
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