Saki Bigio is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics of UCLA. His work focuses on the theoretical and quantitative nexus between financial-market liquidity, credit provision, payment systems, and the macroeconomy.
Prior to UCLA, he was an Assistant Professor at Columbia Business School. Bigio has held Visiting Scholar positions at Princeton University and at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Bigio was born in Lima, Peru. The family name Bigio has jewish origins from Livorno, Italy. Before migrating to Peru in the early 1920s, the Bigio family was based in Aleppo, Syria. Saki (also spelled Zaki) is a common Arab name.