Lee E. Ohanian is professor of economics and director of the Ettinger Family Program in Macroeconomic Research at UCLA, where he has taught since 1999. He is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the associate director of the Center for Advanced Study in Economic Efficiency at Arizona State University.

He is an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and previously has advised other Federal Reserve Banks, Foreign Central Banks, and the National Science Foundation. He has been an economic adviser to state and national political campaigns and has testified to the US Senate and the California State Legislative Assembly.

His research, focusing on economic crises, has been discussed recently in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and other media sources and published widely in a number of peer-reviewed journals. He is a frequent columnist for the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, and other media. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Rochester.

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