PG&E Distinguished Lecture Series

Past Speakers

2026

Gideon Saar, Cornell University
Theis Ingerslev Jensen, Yale University
Dermot Murphy, University of Illinois Chicago
Burton Hollifield, Carnegie Mellon University
Semih Uslu, Johns Hopkins University

2025

Jeffrey Wurgler, New York University
Xing Huang, Olin College
Sebastian Hillenbrand, Harvard Business School
Todd Gormley, Washington University
Mansoor Shekarian, Texas A&M University
Minki Kim, Texas A&M University
Yinan Su, Johns Hopkins University
Xiaan Zhou, Texas A&M University
Justin Murfin, Cornell University
Ting Xu, University of Toronto
Joshua Mollner, Northwestern University
Clemens Sialm, University of Texas

2024

James Vickery, Federal Reserve Bank Philadelphia
Kairong Xiao, Colombia University
Elena Loutskina, University of Virginia
Lawrence Jin, Cornell University
Yujie Ruan, Texas A&M University
Toshi Fukui, Texas A&M University
Hyunseob Kim ,Federal Reserve Bank Chicago
Haneul Yi, Texas A&M University
Wei Wang, Queen’s University
Yoshio Nozawa,  University of Toronto
Lorena Keller ,University of Pennsylvania
Matt Gustafson, Pennsylvania State University
Michael Sockin, University of Texas
Daniel Andrei, McGill University
John Leonardy, Texas A&M University
Ferhat Akbas, University of Illinois Chicago
Pat Akey, University of Toronto

2023

Emily Gallagher, University of Colorado Boulder
Andra Ghent, University of Utah
Zhiguo He, University of Chicago
Yao Zeng, University of Pennsylvania
Elena Loutskina, University of Virginia
Huan Tang, London School of Economics
Xavier Giroud, Colombia University
Isil Erel, The Ohio State University
Tony Cookson, University of Harvard-Boulder
Justin Kim, Harvard Business School
Zhi Da, University of Notre Dame
Geoffrey Tate, University of Maryland
Elena Simintzi, University of North Carolina
Ron Kaniel, University of Rochester
Kelly Shue, Yale University
Bruce Carlin, Rice University
Richard Evans, University of Virginia
Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe, London School of Economics and Political Science

2022

Will Cong, Cornell University
Stefano Giglio, Yale University
Azi Ben-Raphael, Rutgers University
Dong Lou, London School of Economics
Stephen Hansen, Imperial College London
Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School
Karen Lee, Texas A&M University
Vikas Agarwal, Georgia State University
Jaewon Choi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nicholas Barberis, Yale School of Management
Dora Horstman, Texas A&M University
Nina Boyarchenko, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Sudheer Chava, Georgia Tech University
Lin Peng Zicklin, School of Business – Baruch College /City University of New York
Andrew Chen, Federal Reserve Board
Christine Parlour, University of California Berkeley
Jules Van Binsbergen, University of Pennsylvania

2021

Shai Bernstein, Harvard Business School
John Van Reenen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wei Xiong, Princeton University
Ben Iverson, Brigham Young University
Jack Favilukis, University of British Columbia
Camielia Kuhnen, University of North Carolina
Jacob Sagi, University of North Carolina
Radha Gopolan, Washington University
Alex Zhou, Federal Reserve Board
Lauren Cohen, Harvard Business School