Jesús Fernández-Villaverde is a non-resident senior fellow at the Civitas Institute at UT Austin, and the Howard Marks Presidential Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Penn Initiative for the Study of Markets and co-directs the Business, Economic, and Financial History Project at the Wharton Initiative on Financial Policy and Regulation. In addition, he is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Fernández-Villaverde’s primary research interests are in the formulation of dynamic equilibrium models, their efficient computation, and their estimation, in particular using machine learning. He has also worked on issues related to monetary economics, economic history and political economy. He has also developed a popular series of undergraduate courses on the relationship between markets and human flourishing. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota.