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Amir Sufi is the Bruce Lindsay Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He has been a faculty member at Chicago Booth since 2005. Sufi is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he co-directs the NBER Research Program in Corporate Finance. He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2022 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024. In 2017, he was awarded the Fischer Black Prize by the American Finance Association. His expertise lies in the fields of finance and macroeconomics, with current research focused on topics related to intangible capital and corporate finance. He teaches courses on leveraged finance, private credit, distressed debt investing, and corporate restructuring. Sufi obtained his Bachelor’s Degree from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1999 and earned his PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005.
The doctoral program at Booth is organized into 'dissertation areas' which include Accounting, Behavioral Science, Econometrics and Statistics, Finance, Marketing, and Operations Management.