Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy

dlucas@mit.edu

Deborah J. Lucas is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of

Management and the Director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy. Her recent research studies how to better measure and account for the costs, risks, and macroeconomic effects of credit support policies and other government financial obligations. Her focus on the SOMC is on the nexus between fiscal and monetary policy, and on the regulatory policies of central banks. She also has published extensively in the areas of asset pricing and portfolio choice, dynamic models of corporate finance, money and banking, and retirement policy.

She is an NBER Research Associate; and an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and of the National Academy of Public Administration. She is on the editorial board of the Annual Review of Financial Economics and a member of an Urban Institute housing policy advisory board. She is an independent director of CME Group and P/E Investments.

Previous appointments include assistant and associate director at the Congressional Budget Office; professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School; chief economist at the Congressional Budget Office; and senior staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers. She has been a director on several corporate and non-profit boards, including the American Finance Association.

She received her BA, MA, and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.