Joshua Aizenman is a Professor at the University of California, UCSC (serving as the Presidential Chair of Economics on the Santa Cruz campus), and Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research. Other affiliations have included teaching and research positions at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago GSB, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Dartmouth College (where he served as the Champion Professor of International Economics). Consulting relationships include the IMF, the World Bank, the IDB, and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.