Keynote Speaker 2025

Markus K. Brunnermeier

Markus K. Brunnermeier is the Edwards S. Sanford Professor in the economics department at Princeton University and director of Princeton’s Bendheim Center for Finance. His research focuses on resilience, international financial markets, monetary theory, and macroeconomics with special emphasis on bubbles, liquidity, financial crises and digital money.

Brunnermeier was president of the American Finance Association (2023), is nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Centre for Economic Policy Research, CESifo, ABFER, and a member of the Bellagio Group on the International Economy. He is a Sloan Research Fellow, fellow of the Econometric Society, Guggenheim Fellow, and the recipient of the Bernácer Prize granted for outstanding contributions in the fields of macroeconomics and finance. He is a member of several advisory groups, including to the US Congressional Budget Office, the Bank for International Settlements, Bank of Japan, and the Bundesbank as well as previously to the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve of New York, the European Systemic Risk Board.

Santiago Finance Workshop

The Santiago Finance Workshop (SFW) is a two-day academic event organized annually by the University of Chile. The SFW takes place in Santiago, Chile during the second week of December.

The aim of the SFW is to bring together international scholars and policymakers to discuss cutting-edge research in all areas of finance and financial economics, with special emphasis on capital markets and corporate finance. This a high-level event which has taken place annually since 2015 (apart from in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic) and which has welcomed outstanding keynote speakers:

• Victoria Ivashina (Harvard Business School)
• Philipp Schnabl (New York University Stern School of Business)
• Ron Kaniel (University of Rochester)
• Itay Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania, Executive Editor of The Review of Financial Studies)
• Toni M. Whited (University of Michigan, Co-Editor of the Journal of Financial Economics)
• Stefan Nagel (University of Chicago, Executive Editor of the Journal of Finance)
• Andrew Karolyi (Cornell University, former Executive Editor of The Review of Financial Studies)
• Franklin Allen (University of Pennsylvania and Imperial College London, former Executive Editor of The Review of Financial Studies)
• Michael Brennan (UCLA, former Editor of the Journal of Finance and founding Editor of The Review of Financial Studies)