Separate ticket required. This event is free and open to the public. Must be 21 or older to attend; government-issued ID required for entry.

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Join us as we celebrate 90 years of Welcoming the world. Championing diversity – the theme of the International House 90th Anniversary Celebration. International House alumni and friends, staff, and current graduate student fellows are invited to close the 2022-2023 academic year with a special keynote conversation featuring Professor Douglas W. Diamond the Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.

Speaker:

Douglas W. Diamond is the 2022 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his groundbreaking research on banks and financial crises. He specializes in the study of financial intermediaries, financial crises, and liquidity. Diamond is the Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He has been on the faculty since 1979. Diamond is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Finance Association and was president of the American Finance Association and the Western Finance Association. Diamond received the Onassis Prize in Finance in 2018, the CME Group- Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications in 2016 and the Morgan Stanley-American Finance Association Award for Excellence in Finance in 2012.

Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact International House in advance of the program at (773) 753-2274 or email at i-house-programs@uchicago.edu.

Please use the door on Dorchester Avenue to enter the Assembly Hall.