Narayana Kocherlakota is the Louise & Henry Epstein Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Finance at the Simon Business School, University of Rochester. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His academic career includes positions at Stanford University, Northwestern University, The University of Iowa, and the University of Minnesota, where he chaired the economics department from 2006 to 2008, improving its national ranking.