Wenxin Du

Wenxin Du is a Professor of Finance and the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management at the Harvard Business School. She studies global currency and fixed income markets, central banking, financial regulations, and emerging market finance. She was the recipient of 2022 Award for Economics in Central Banking, and was named the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow 2021-2023. 

Prior to joining Harvard, Du was Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions at Columbia Business School and a professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She also held full-time positions as Financial Research Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Principal Economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. She was a central bank research fellow at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland.

She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-leads the initiative on Market Frictions and Financial Risks, and currently serves on the academic advisory committee for the Bank for International Settlements and Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. She is also an associate editor at the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of International Economics, and Review of Financial Studies.

She earned an A.M. and a Ph.D. both in Economics from Harvard University, and a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Swarthmore College with Highest Honors.