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Metrick’s current research and teaching is focused on financial stability, including the regulation of systemic risk, the activities of complex financial institutions, and the causes and consequences of the financial crisis of 2007-2009. From August 2009 to July 2010, he served on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisers and as the financial economist staffing the President’s Economic Recovery Board, where he worked extensively on what became the Dodd-Frank Act, and on many areas relating to the ongoing crisis.

Stacey has worked at Yale for over a decade. She formerly worked in the Office of Public Affairs and Communications, the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, the Yale School of Public Health, and the physics department—before coming to the Yale Program on Financial Stability. Before her career at Yale, Stacey worked in broadcast radio and marketing. She teaches Introduction to Business Management and Principles of Marketing to undergraduate students as an adjunct professor at Baker College.

Stacey holds a master’s degree in journalism from Quinnipiac University and a doctorate in business administration from Baker College. Her dissertation focused on workplace dynamics between women.

Stacey is a dedicated volunteer who has been volunteering with the Working Women’s Network since 2016. In addition to work, volunteering, and teaching, Stacey is happily married to Alberto. Together, they raise three children—two girls and one boy. In her free time, Stacey enjoys reading, swimming, cooking, biking, vacationing with family, movie nights, knitting, and happy hours with friends.  

Bill English joined Yale University from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where he was the Senior Special Advisor to the Board for monetary policy. Over more than 20 years at the Board of Governors, he has held a range of positions, including, from 2010 to 2015, Director of the Division of Monetary Affairs and Secretary to the Federal Open Market Committee. In that position, Bill oversaw the development of monetary policy, working extensively on issues related to asset purchases, policy normalization, and policy communication. Prior to joining the Federal Reserve, Bill taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago. He received a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986 and a BA in economics and mathematics from Yale University in 1982.

Alex joined the Yale School of Management in 2018 and joined the YPFS team in 2019. Alex serves as the Director to YPFS and to our Master's Degree in Systemic Risk program. 

Prior to joining the YPFS, Rhee was a fellow at the Harvard Law School’s Program on Corporate Governance and served as an editor for the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation. During her fellowship, Rhee focused on corporate governance problems within U.S. public companies. Rhee also spent several years as an associate at a law firm in New York where her practice focused on securities regulation and structured finance, and a general counsel for Samsung Corporation where she managed compliance and governance issues.  Rhee received a JD from Harvard Law School.