Chris Wheat

Chris Wheat is a Managing Director at JPMorganChase & Co. and President of the JPMorganChase Institute. The Institute’s recent work has focused on helping policymakers understand how consumers, workers, homeowners, business owners, and investors are responding in a dynamically evolving economic policy environment. Chris’ work has been cited by federal and local policymakers and covered by major national and local media outlets. He serves on the board of the Association for Enterprise Opportunity and regularly joins industry leaders and other experts as an economic policy advisor. He was previously a faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management and at the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development at Rutgers Business School. He earned a B.S.E. in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University, an M.S. in computer science from Stanford University, an M.A. in sociology from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Harvard University.