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The spring 2023 Kemper Foundation Lecture speaker will be Professor Craig Furfine.

Craig Furfine is a Clinical Professor of Finance and Associate Chair of the Finance Department at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He teaches corporate finance and multiple courses on real estate finance to undergraduates, MBA students, and executives and is a ten-time winner of Kellogg’s Certificate of Impact, an award for which he was nominated by his students. Furfine has written eighteen case studies covering a wide range of topics in real estate finance and is the author of Practical Finance for Property Investment, a book designed for investors and students interested in learning what finance theory implies about property investment. 
 
Professor Furfine’s research studies the functioning of interbank markets, commercial mortgage securitization, and real estate finance, having published in scholarly journals including the Review of Corporate Finance Studies, the Journal of Business, the Journal of Monetary Economics and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. 
 
Furfine additionally serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking and Treasurer of the Midwest Finance Association. Prior to joining the Kellogg School faculty, he was an economic advisor in the economic research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He previously served as a senior economist at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland where he contributed to the revision of international bank capital standards. Before that, he was an economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where he served on international work groups responsible for analyzing various payment system issues. He received a PhD in economics from Stanford University.