Instructor Profile
Lara Kattan, MPP
Clinical Assistant Professor of Operations Management
Lara Kattan is a data scientist and machine learning engineer with particular interests in financial modeling and Bayesian financial statistics. At the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, she teaches Python, SQL, and R courses.
She has previously been a consultant at McKinsey and EY, specializing in machine learning for finance. Kattan holds an MPP in public policy (econometrics concentration) from the University of Chicago, and a BA in economics and political science from Northwestern University.