Fatih Guvenen is the Curtis L. Carlson Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota and the founding director of the Minnesota Economics Big Data Institute. He is also an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a fellow of the Econometric Society. He has held visiting or full-time academic positions at the University of Rochester, New York University’s Stern School of Business, Yale University, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. His research covers various dimensions of economic inequality and how these interact with the macroeconomy and government policies. Guvenen’s papers have been published in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of Economic Studies, among others, and have been covered in the media (The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Economist, The New Yorker, Bloomberg, and Fortune,among others). His work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Retirement Research Consortium, the Russell Sage Foundation, and other organizations. Guvenen received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Bilkent University in Turkey and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in economics from Carnegie Mellon University.