Cohort, 2011, Industry, Banking & Finance, Sector, Academia, Social Media, Brent Neiman is the Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. From 2022 to 2025, he served at the US Department of the Treasury as counselor to the secretary and deput...

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