Anil K Kashyap is the Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics and Finance at University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He studies banking, business cycles, corporate finance, and monetary policy. He spent three years as an Economist for the Board of Governors for the Federal Reserve System and is an academic members of the Bellagio Group (whose non-academic members consist of the Deputy Central Bank Governors and Vice Ministers of Finance of the G7 countries). He is the cofounder of the US Monetary Policy Forum.