Jonathan A. Parker is the Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Finance, Head of the finance group at Sloan, Director of the MIT Sloan Consumer Finance Initiative, and co-director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy.  He is also an Economic Adviser for the Congressional Budget Office, an Advisory Editor at the Journal of Financial Economics, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an expert in both the Financial Times/IGM US Macroeconomists Survey and the IGM Finance Experts panel.  Professor Parker has served as Visiting Scholar at Multiple Federal Reserve Banks, as Special Adviser on Financial Stability for the Office of Financial Stability in the U.S. Department of the Treasury in 2009, as an Editor of the NBER Macroeconomics Annual,  as a contractor for Fidelity, as a contractor for the JPMorgan Chase Institute, and on the Board of Editors of the American Economic Review.  An expert in finance, macroeconomics, and household behavior, Professor Parker has published widely on topics such as macroeconomic risks and asset returns, household financial decisions, fiscal stabilization policy, national saving, the measurement of business cycles, and modeling human economic behavior.