Keynote Speakers
The workshop is pleased to welcome the following distinguished keynote speakers:
| Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|
| Prof. Drew D. Creal | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| Prof. Whitney Newey | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA |
| Prof. Mark Taylor | Washington University in St. Louis, USA |
| Prof. Jing Cynthia Wu | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA |
The keynote lectures will bring complementary perspectives on modern econometrics, financial and macroeconomic dynamics, asset pricing, monetary policy, and quantitative methods for analyzing complex financial data. Together, they will highlight key challenges and recent advances in financial econometrics and financial-market analysis.
Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois
Drew D. Creal is Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He was previously the Patrick O'Malley and Christine O'Malley Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, and before that spent a decade on the faculty of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he taught econometrics and statistics. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of …
Ford Professor of Economics at MIT
Whitney Newey is Ford Professor of Economics at MIT. He is the recipient of the 2026 Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics. He is also a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He also served as Co-editor of Econometrica, as Program Co-chair for the 2005 World Congress of the Econometric Society, and previously and now on the…
Jr. Distinguished Professor of Finance at Olin Business School
Mark Taylor is the Donald Danforth, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Finance at Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, and a leading scholar in international finance and exchange-rate economics. Much of his research concerns nonlinear adjustment in international financial markets, particularly the role of transaction costs and other frictions in generating…
Chair Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois
Jing Cynthia Wu is the Paul W. and Catherine A. Boltz Chair Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Wu earned her PhD in economics from UC San Diego. Her research is at the intersection of monetary economics and asset pricing, with specialization in monetary policy, the zero lower bound, and the term structure…
