Jeremy C. Stein is the Moise Y. Safra Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a former president of the American Finance Association.
Stein received his AB in economics summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1983 and his PhD in economics from M.I.T. in 1986. He was an assistant professor of finance at the Harvard Business School from 1987-1990, and finance faculty of M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management for ten years after that. Stein joined Harvard in 2000.[1]
Among many honors, Stein received the Fama-DFA Prize, which 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.
On Tuesday December 27, 2011, President Barack Obama announced that he plans to nominate Stein to fill one of the two vacancies on the seven-member Federal Reserve Board.