Jeremy C. Stein


Jeremy Chaim Stein an American macroeconomist. He is the Moise Y. Safra Professor of Economics at Harvard University, the chair of the Department of Economics at Harvard, and an investment industry consultant. Stein was president of the American Finance Association in 2008, and a member of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve from 2012 to 2014.

Early life and education

Stein was born to a secular Jewish family, the son of mathematician Elias M. Stein and Elly Intrator. Both his parents were Jewish refugees during World War II who immigrated to the United States. He graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. in economics from Princeton University in 1983 after completing a 118-page senior thesis titled "Pseudo-Securities: An Analysis of Financially Hedged Positions." While at Princeton, he was co-captain of the men's gymnastics team, specializing in rings. In 1986, he earned a PhD in economics from MIT. His 1998 paper "Risk management, capital budgeting, and capital structure policy for financial institutions: an integrated approach" with Kenneth A. Froot won the Jensen Prize

Career

After serving a one-year internship at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., he became an assistant professor of finance at the Harvard Business School from 1987-1990, and finance faculty of MIT’s Sloan School of Management for ten years after that. Stein rejoined Harvard in 2000.
Stein received the Fama-DFA Prize, which is an annual prize given to authors with the best capital markets and asset pricing research papers published in the Journal of Financial Economics for 2002.
He designed quantitative asset-management strategies for Guggenheim Partners from 2005 to 2007, was also a senior adviser to the Treasury secretary and was on the staff at the National Economic Council in 2009.

Federal Reserve Board

On December 27, 2011, President Barack Obama announced that he planned to nominate Stein to fill one of the two vacancies on the seven-member Federal Reserve Board. Stein's nomination was filibustered by Republicans in the United States Senate. On May 15, 2012, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid motioned to invoke cloture and break the filibuster on both the nominations of Stein and of Powell. On May 17, 2012, a Senate floor vote was held on Stein's nomination with a required 60-vote threshold for confirmation. Senators voted 70-24 to confirm Stein.
On April 3, 2014 Stein announced that he would resign his position at the Federal Reserve and return to Harvard by May 28.

After the Fed

In addition to the post at Harvard, in March 2015, Stein began working as a consultant for hedge fund BlueMountain Capital.

Personal life

Stein is married with three children and lives in Boston. His daughter Carolyn is currently a graduate student in economics at M.I.T.