CONFERENCES

Lorie K. Logan is the 14th President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. She leads a workforce of 1,400 across the Eleventh District, which covers Texas, northern Louisiana and southern New Mexico. She represents the district on the FOMC and will be a voting member in 2026. An expert on monetary policy and the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet, she played pivotal roles in guiding the U.S. economy through the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prior to joining the Dallas Fed, she spent over two decades at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where she managed the System Open Market Account and led the implementation of FOMC policy decisions. She emphasizes collaboration, innovation, and listening at the Dallas Fed, launching initiatives such as the Global Institute, focused on U.S.-Mexico economic ties, and district-wide listening tours. A Kentucky native, she holds degrees from Davidson College and Columbia University.

Diego Kanzig is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He also serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of the European Economic Association. Professor Känzig’s research is in macroeconomics with a focus on climate change and inequality. In his work, he studies the role of energy and climate change for economic fluctuations and how economic inequality matters for the transmission of macroeconomic shocks and policies. His research highlights that climate change and inequality also have important business cycle implications, above and beyond the significant long-run effects.

Julia Coronado is a clinical associate professor of finance at The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business. She has taught macroeconomics to MBA students since 2018 and serves as the associate director and consultant for the school’s real estate center. The Texas Real Estate Center aims to facilitate cutting-edge research in finance, real estate, law, design, and planning, and to give students the opportunity to connect and learn from industry professionals.

Coronado is also president and co-founder of MacroPolicy Perspectives LLC, which leverages the expertise of former senior officials at the Federal Reserve and the Department of the Treasury. Before joining the McCombs faculty, Coronado spent eight years working for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., where she contributed to the forecasts of the Federal Open Market Committee. She has also served as the chief economist for Graham Capital Management LP.

Galina Hale is a Professor of Economics at UC Santa Cruz. She served as a Research Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and an assistant professor in the economics department of Yale University. Galina is a director of the CEBRA’s IFM program and a co-director of the UCSC Center for Analytical Finance (CAFIN). Galina has been recently working on ways economists can inform policymakers on how to make the food system more sustainable. She serves on editorial boards of a number of Economics journals and on multiple boards and committees in animal welfare and animal agriculture space.

Christiane Baumeister is the Lambert Family Professor of Economics and Associate Chair at the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on energy market dynamics, monetary policy transmission, and Bayesian inference in structural vector autoregressive models. Her work appears in Econometrica, American Economic Review, AEJ: Macroeconomics, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics, among others. She is a Research Associate at the NBER, a Research Fellow at the CEPR, and serves as Associate Editor for several journals. Before joining Notre Dame in 2015, she was a Principal Researcher at the Bank of Canada.

Michael Barnett is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Arizona State University. His research employs theoretical modeling, computational methods, and empirical analysis to explore the implications of climate change, climate model uncertainty, and climate policy on macroeconomic outcomes, asset prices, and social valuations. His work has been published in leading academic journals, including the Review of Financial Studies and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2021, he was awarded the Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award by the Society for Financial Studies.

Juanma Castro-Vincenzi is an economist interested in International Trade, Macroeconomics and Environmental Economics. I am an Assistant Professor at the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago.