Sydney C. Ludvigson is an economist and the Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow Professor of Economics at New York University. Since 2017, she serves as chair of NYU's Economics Department. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Co-Director of the Asset Pricing Program. From 2008 to 2011, she was an Associate Editor of the American Economic Review.