Brent Neiman is the Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics at Chicago Booth. He served from 2022-2025 at the U.S. Treasury as Counselor to the Secretary and as the Deputy Undersecretary for International Finance, where he worked on a broad set of international economic issues, including the bilateral relationship with China, the response to Russia’s war in Ukraine, emerging market sovereign debt, IMF governance and programs, and global financial regulation.
Neiman conducts research on international macroeconomics, finance, and trade. He serves as the co-director of the International Economics and Economic Geography Initiative at the Becker Friedman Institute and is a Research Associate in the International Finance and Macroeconomics and the International Trade and Investment groups at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research. Neiman co-founded the Global Capital Allocation Project, previously served as an Executive Board member of the Kent A. Clark Center for Global Markets at Chicago Booth, and was an associate editor of The American Economic Review, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, and The Journal of International Economics.
Earlier in his career, Neiman was the staff economist for international finance on the White House Council of Economic Advisers and worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, at McKinsey and Company, and at the McKinsey Global Institute.
