Wenxin Du is the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on global currency and fixed income markets, central banking, financial regulation, and emerging market finance. She received the 2022 Award for Economics in Central Banking and was named an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow for 2021–2023.
Before joining Harvard, Du was the Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions at Columbia Business School and previously served as Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She also worked as a Financial Research Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a Principal Economist at the Federal Reserve Board, and a central bank research fellow at the Bank for International Settlements.
Du is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where she co-leads the Market Frictions and Financial Risks initiative. She serves on the academic advisory committees of the Bank for International Settlements and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and is an associate editor for the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of International Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies.
She earned her A.M. and Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and a B.A. with Highest Honors in Economics and Mathematics from Swarthmore College.