Dalie Jimenez

Dalié Jiménez expertise lies at the intersection of credit and debt markets, consumer protection, and financial distress. She is currently working on a large-scale, randomized control trial evaluating the effectiveness of legal and counseling interventions to help individuals in financial distress. Her latest piece on the debt buying and collections industry was published on the Harvard Journal on Legislation.

Professor Jiménez served as a Policy Fellow in the founding staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau where she advised officials on legal and policy issues around debt collection, credit reporting, and student loans. She also co-authored two reports to Congress on consumer credit scoring issues. 

Prior to her academic career, Professor Jiménez clerked for the Honorable Judge Juan R. Torruella of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, was as a litigation associate at Ropes & Gray, L.L.P., and worked on consumer protection issues at the Massachusetts State Senate.

Professor Jiménez is a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where she was a recipient of the American Bankruptcy Institute Award for Outstanding Bankruptcy Student. She was also senior editor of the Harvard International Law Journal. In addition, she holds dual B.S. degrees in political science and electrical engineering/computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

You can follow Professor Jiménez on Twitter @daliejimenez.