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Luigi Zingales

Luigi Zingales is the Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

He joined the Chicago Booth faculty in 1992 and his research has earned him the 2003 Bernácer Prize for the best young European financial economist. In addition to holding his position at Chicago Booth, Zingales is currently a faculty research fellow for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow for the Center for Economic Policy Research, and a fellow of the European Governance Institute.

In July 2015, Zingales became the director of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago which he is refocusing on promoting and diffusing research on regulatory capture and the various distortions that special interest groups impose on capitalism. He co-developed the Financial Trust Index, which is designed to monitor the level of trust that Americans have toward their financial system.  In 2014, he was the president of the American Finance Association. He is the co-host of the podcast Capitalisn't.

Zingales received a bachelor's degree in economics summa cum laude from Universitr Bocconi in Italy in 1987 and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992.