Kinda Hachem is the Morris Plan Associate Professor of Consumer Credit in the Global Economies and Markets area and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She conducts theoretical and empirical research in macroeconomics, monetary economics, financial intermediation, financial crises, and shadow banking. Her work is published or forthcoming in several leading journals, including the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. Before joining Darden in 2018, Kinda was associate professor of economics at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Toronto and worked at RBC Financial Group and the Bank of Canada prior to her doctoral studies.