Power and Politics in Banking Today

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Anat R. Admati is the George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business and a senior fellow at Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Her work focuses on the intersection of business, law, and policy—especially governance, accountability, banking, and financial regulation. She is Faculty Director of the Corporations and Society Initiative at Stanford GSB.Since 2010, Admati has been active in global debates on financial regulation and corporate accountability, and her work has been featured in outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and the Financial Times. She is co-author (with Martin Hellwig) of the award-winning book The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It (Princeton, 2013). Admati holds degrees from the Hebrew University and Yale University. She is a fellow of the Econometric Society and has served on advisory committees for the FDIC and CFTC.

Amit Seru is the Steven and Roberta Denning Professor of Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and SIEPR, and a research associate at NBER. His research focuses on corporate finance, financial intermediation and regulation, technological innovation, incentives, and firm financing, and has been published in leading journals including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and The Journal of Finance.Seru has presented his work to U.S. and international regulatory agencies, including the BIS, ECB, Federal Reserve, FDIC, IMF, and MAS, and has been featured in major media such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the Financial Times. He earned degrees from the University of Delhi and a PhD in finance from the University of Michigan.

Moderator: Tunc Ekin Yavuz, MBA/MPA ’26