Zingales is the faculty director of the Stigler Center and the Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at Chicago Booth. His research interests span from corporate governance to financial development, from political economy to the economic effects of culture. He has published extensively in the major economics and financial journals. He also wrote two best-selling books: Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists (2003) with Chicago Booth’s Raghuram G. Rajan, and A Capitalism for the People (2012). In January 2018, he launched a new podcast, Capitalisn’t, about the ways capitalism is—or more often isn’t—working in our world today.
Luigi Zingales, Faculty Director
Gertner is the Joel F. Gemunder Professor of Strategy and Finance and the John Edwardson Faculty Director of the Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation at Chicago Booth. His research interests include strategic decision-making, corporate finance, organization structure, theory of the firm, and social enterprises. He has published papers in numerous top scholarly journals and teaches courses in strategic decision-making, social entrepreneurship, and impact investing.
Robert H. Gertner, Faculty Advisory Board Member
Guerrieri is the Ronald E. Tarrson Professor of Economics and Willard Graham Faculty Scholar at Chicago Booth and the co-director of the Macroeconomics Research Initiative at the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago. She studies macroeconomics, labor and financial market frictions, search theory, dynamic contracting, and growth theory. She is a managing editor of the Review of Economic Studies and a member of the board of editors of the Journal of Economic Literature.
Veronica Guerrieri, Faculty Advisory Board Member
Rajan is the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at Chicago Booth. He was the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India between September 2013 and September 2016. Between 2003 and 2006, Rajan was the Chief Economist and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund. His research interests are in banking, corporate finance, and economic development, especially the role finance plays in it. His most recent book is The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind (2019).
Raghuram G. Rajan, Faculty Advisory Board Member
Piontek joined the Stigler Center in 2018 and was appointed Executive Director in 2025. During her tenure she has served as an integral member of the team, ensuring impact and operational excellence for the center鈥檚 outreach, research, and education initiatives, including leading the flagship Journalists in Residence Program. Prior to Chicago Booth, she managed undergraduate and international admissions for an all-women's college. She has an MS from the London School of Economics.
Rachel Piontek, Executive Director
Burca is Acting Program Director at the Stigler Center, where he leads programming (including hallmark initiatives like the annual Antitrust and Competition Conference series), fundraising and strategic partnerships. Burca holds a BA from DePaul University and an MA from Northwestern University, where he completed PhD coursework (ABD) in political science.
Sebastian Burca, Acting Program Director
Lucky is the Assistant Director of the Stigler Center, where he conducts research to develop programs and content across the Center's initiatives. He holds PhD in political science from Indiana University - Bloomington.
Matthew Lucky, Assistant Director, Programs
Nazzaro is the Assistant Director of Operations at the Stigler Center, where she provides administrative support for the Center鈥檚 events and Journalist in Residence Program. Nazzaro attended the University of Chicago for her undergraduate degree, and she holds an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Annie Nazzaro, Assistant Director, Operations
Shi is the Deputy Managing Editor of ProMarket, where he helps manage production and development. He previously worked as the Editor for Graphika, a startup that investigates disinformation, and as a research associate at NORC and Harvard Business School. He received his MA in history from Columbia University and the London School of Economics.
Andrew Shi, ProMarket Deputy Managing Editor
Bruno is a research professional at the Stigler Center. He holds a BSc in Economics and Finance from the University of Roma Tre and a MSc in Economics from the University of Tor Vergata. He previously worked as a research assistant at the University of Tor Vergata and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern, studying Economic History topics like the birth of US elites and the relation between religion and immigrant assimilation. His research interests include Labor Economics, Political Economy and Microeconometrics.
Lorenzo Bruno
Licari is a research professional at the Stigler Center. He holds a BSc in Economics and Finance and a MSc in Finance from Bocconi University. He previously worked as a research assistant at Harvard Business School, focusing on the political and economic effects of migration and the role of climate similarity as a driver of migration. His research interests include Political Economy, Applied Econometrics, and Financial Economics.
Emanuele Licari
Singh graduated from IIT Kharagpur with an integrated BS-MS, majoring in Economics with a minor in Mathematics and Computing and a Micro-specialisation in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. During his undergrad, Singh worked as an RA with the DIME team at The World Bank, where his research was focussed on Law and Economics, Environmental Economics, with applications of NLP and ML. His research interests include Law and Economics, Industrial Organisation, Political Economy and Conflicts.
Shashank Singh
Wei is a research professional at the Stigler Center. She earned an LLB in Law and a BA in Economics from National Taiwan University and spent her fourth undergraduate year at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining the Stigler Center, she worked as a research assistant at National Taiwan University, specializing in economic history, industrial organization, and behavioral finance. Her current research interests are in industrial organization and the intersection of law and economics.
Sih-Yu Wei
