Alex Ufier is the Chief of the Quantitative Risk Analysis Section at the Center for Financial Research at the FDIC, participating in corporate projects requiring economic modeling expertise. His current research looks primarily at failed banks and deposit insurance funding. Alex is published in Journal of Finance, Economic Inquiry, International Tax and Public Finance, AEA Papers and Proceedings, and Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance; has working papers in the FDIC, NBER, and World Bank working paper series; and has coauthored with researchers from Duke University, FDIC, NBER, Tulane University, the World Bank and the Deposit Protection Corporation Zimbabwe. Alex grew up in rural southeastern Pennsylvania. He attended Bucknell University and earned a B.A. in economics and history, working as a teaching assistant for physics during his time there. He then went on to get his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics at the University of Oklahoma, where he also taught microeconomics and statistics both as a teaching assistant and instructor of record. His dissertation focus was on public finance and development. After earning his Ph.D. in 2015, Alex began working for the FDIC in the Center for Financial Research in Washington DC as a Financial Economist, was promoted to Senior Financial Economist, and later became Chief of the Quantitative Risk Analysis Section in 2021. He married his wife Liz in 2020 and they have two cats together, Constantine and Attila, in downtown DC.