Steve Cecchetti is Professor of International Economics at the Brandeis International Business School. Having studied economics at MIT and Berkeley, he now teaches macroeconomics and finance to business school students. From 2008 to 2013 Professor Cecchetti was Economic Adviser and Head of the Monetary and Economic Department at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland where he participated in post-crisis global regulatory reform initiatives aimed at establishing new international standards.

Professor Cecchetti writes frequently on macroeconomics and finance. He is co-author with Professor Kermit Schoenholtz of a popular textbook on Money, Banking and Financial Markets (McGraw-Hill) and a related blog. In addition, over the past 30 years he has authored dozens articles in top scientific and policy journals focusing, has been a regular contributor to the Financial Times and is a founding contributor of VOX a policy portal.

In addition to teaching, research and writing, Professor Cecchetti is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research; a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research; and a panelist of the U.S. Monetary Policy Forum, which regularly addresses the key challenges facing the Federal Reserve and other central banks. And, from 1997 to 1999, he served as Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

For Professor Cecchetti’s commentary on economic and financial developments, see www.moneyandbanking.com.

Kim Schoenholtz is the Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets in the Department of Economics at the NYU Stern School of Business. Having studied economics at Yale University, he now teaches courses on money and banking, financial crises, and macroeconomics to business school students and undergraduates, and also directs NYU Stern's Center for Global Economy and Business. Until 2005, he served as Citigroup's global chief economist. In his spare time, he is an amateur astronomer and shows the wonders of the night sky to the interested public at a New Jersey observatory.

Professor Schoenholtz writes frequently on finance and macroeconomics. As a market economist for more than 20 years, he advised institutional investors around the world about economic and financial developments. He is co-author, with Professor Stephen Cecchetti, of a popular textbook on Money, Banking and Financial Markets (McGraw-Hill) and a related blog. He has published articles in many venues, including Bloomberg, the Financial Times, Forbes, Huffington Post, International Herald Tribune, New York Post, Politico and the Wall Street Journal Europe.

In addition to teaching and writing, Professor Schoenholtz is a member of the Financial Research Advisory Committee of the U.S. Treasury's Office of Financial Research. He also is a panelist of the U.S. Monetary Policy Forum, which regularly addresses the key challenges facing the Federal Reserve and other central banks.

For Professor Schoenholtz's commentary on economic and financial developments, see www.moneyandbanking.com.