Keynote Speaker

George G. Pennacchi is a professor of finance and a co-director of the Office for Banking Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Also, he is the Program Coordinator for Deposit Insurance at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Center for Financial Research and is a Research Associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. His research focuses on financial intermediaries and the valuation of fixed-income securities and government guarantees. Currently, he is the Managing Editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation and an associate editor of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Financial Services Research, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. Previously, he was an associate editor for the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and Management Science, and a co-editor of Advances in Futures and Options Research. His consulting experience includes work for the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. He has been a visiting professor at the Università Bocconi in Milan, Italy, and was a member of the finance faculty at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Pennacchi received a Sc.B. degree in applied mathematics from Brown University in 1977 and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984.