Sigríður Benediktsdóttir (Sigga)'s research interests are in the area of international finance with focus on Central Banks and financial stability. She received a Bachelor of Science in economics and in computer science from the University of Iceland in 1995 and 1998 respectively. She completed her doctoral degree in economics at Yale in May 2005, with concentration in finance and econometrics. Prior to joining Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, she was the Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Education at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University. She was an external expert in the IMF Financial Stability Assessment Program (FSAP) for the UK, which concluded its mission in February 2022. She was Director of the Financial Stability Department at the Central Bank of Iceland 2012-2016. She was also a voting member of the Danish Systemic Risk Council during the same period. Previously she was a lecturer and associate chair of the Economics Department at Yale University and an economist for the U.S. Federal Reserve Board. She was one of three appointed to the Parliamentary Special Investigation Commission on the causes of the Icelandic banking collapse in 2008. Sigga now teaches part-time in the Yale School of Management’s Master’s in Systemic Risk program.
