Speaker Biographies
Keynote Speakers
Michael S. Barr took office as the vice chair for supervision of the Federal Reserve System Board of Governors for a four-year term on July 19, 2022. He also serves as a member of the Board of Governors for an unexpired term ending January 31, 2032. Prior to his appointment, Barr was the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Frank Murphy Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, the Roy F. and Jean Humphrey Proffitt Professor of Law at the University of Michigan law school, and the founder and faculty director of the University of Michigan's Center on Finance, Law, and Policy. At the University of Michigan law school, he taught financial regulation and international finance and cofounded the International Transactions Clinic and the Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project. Barr served as the US Department of the Treasury's assistant secretary for financial institutions, 2009-2010. He served as the Treasury Secretary's special assistant, as deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury, as special adviser to the president, and as a special adviser and counselor on the policy planning staff at the US Department of State. Barr also served as a law clerk to US Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter during October Term 1993, and previously to Pierre N. Leval, then of the Southern District of New York. Barr received a BA in history from Yale University, an MPhil in international relations from Oxford University, and a JD from Yale Law School.
Raphael W. Bostic is president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. From 2012 to 2017, Bostic was the Judith and John Bedrosian Chair in Governance and the Public Enterprise at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California (USC), where he was director of the master's of real estate development degree program and founding director of the Casden Real Estate Economics Forecast. Bostic also served USC's Lusk Center for Real Estate as the interim associate director from 2007 to 2009 and as the interim director from 2015 to 2016. From 2016 to 2017, he was the chair of the center's Governance, Management, and Policy Process Department. From 2009 to 2012, Bostic was the assistant secretary for policy development and research at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Bostic worked at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 1995 to 2001, first as an economist and then a senior. He served as special assistant to HUD's assistant secretary of policy development and research in 1999. He was also a professional lecturer at American University in 1998. He graduated from Harvard University in 1987 with a combined major in economics and psychology. He earned his doctorate in economics from Stanford University in 1995.
Susan M. Collins is president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. In this role, Collins serves on the Federal Open Market Committee and oversees all Boston Fed activities, including economic research and analysis, banking supervision and financial stability efforts, community economic development activities, as well as payments, technology, and finance initiatives. Prior to leading the Boston Fed, Collins was provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan. She was the chief academic and budget officer, responsible for overseeing all academic programming and budget planning. She was also the Edward M. Gramlich Collegiate Professor of Public Policy and professor of economics. Collins came to Michigan in 2007, serving for a decade as the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of the university's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. As she stepped down as provost, Michigan's Board of Regents awarded her a Regents' Citation of Honor for her dedication and service to the university. She retains the designation of a professor at the university, on unpaid leave. Collins contributed previously within the Federal Reserve System, serving for nine years on the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (three of those years as a director for the Detroit branch), starting in 2013. Collins earned a PhD in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after graduating from Harvard University summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in economics. Her published research has focused on the determinants of economic growth and exchange rate regimes, and the implications for economic performance. She has also explored the implications of global integration for US labor markets, persistent macroeconomic imbalances, and countries' economic transformations.
Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and the chairman of the department of economics at Harvard University, where he has taught microeconomic theory, and occasionally urban and public economics, since 1992. He has served as director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. He has published dozens of papers on cities' economic growth, law, and economics. In particular, his work has focused on the determinants of city growth and the role of cities as centers of idea transmission. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1992. His books include Cities, Agglomeration, and Spatial Equilibrium (Oxford University Press, 2008), Rethinking Federal Housing Policy (American Enterprise Institute Press, 2008), Triumph of the City (Penguin Press, 2011), and Survival of the City: Mass Flourishing in an Age of Social Isolation (Penguin Press, 2021).
Loretta J. Mester is president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. In that role, she participates in the formulation of US monetary policy and oversees more than 1,000 employees based at the Cleveland Bank and branches in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh who conduct economic research, supervise banking institutions, promote community development, and provide payment services to depository institutions and the US Treasury. Mester represents the Fourth District on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). She began her career at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia in 1985 as an economist and was executive vice president and director of research at the Philadelphia Fed before her appointment as president and CEO of the Cleveland Fed on June 1, 2014. She is an adjunct professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She has also taught in the undergraduate finance and MBA programs at Wharton and in the PhD program in finance at New York University. Mester is a director of the Greater Cleveland Partnership, a trustee of the Cleveland Clinic, a trustee of the Musical Arts Association (Cleveland Orchestra), a director of the Council for Economic Education, a founding director of the Financial Intermediation Research Society, a member of the senior council of the Central Bank Research Association, and a member of the advisory board of the Financial Intermediation Network of European Studies. She is a member of the American Economic Association, the American Finance Association, the Econometric Society, and the Financial Management Association International. Mester graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics and economics from Barnard College of Columbia University. She earned MA and PhD degrees in economics from Princeton University, where she was a National Science Foundation Fellow.
Other Speaker Biographies
Laura Alfaro is the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She took leave from Harvard, where she has been since 1999, to serve as minister of national planning and economic policy in Costa Rica from 2010 to 2012. She is coeditor of the Journal of International Economics and the World Bank Research Observer, vice president of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, and a cochair of the World Economic Forum's global future council on the future of growth. She is a faculty research associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research's international finance and macroeconomics (IFM) and international trade and investment programs, the Center for Economic Policy Research IFM program, and cochair of the NBER's Economics of Supply Chains conference, a joint effort with the Department of Homeland Security. She is the author of multiple articles published in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of International Economics, and Harvard Business School cases related to the field of international economics, particularly in international capital flows, foreign direct investment, sovereign debt, trade, and emerging markets. She earned her PhD in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she received the dissertation fellowship award. She received a BA in economics with honors from the Universidad de Costa Rica and a licenciatura from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where she graduated with highest honors. She received a Francisco Marroquin Foundation scholarship.
John Y. Campbell is the Morton L. and Carole S. Olshan Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1994. Campbell has published over 100 articles on various aspects of finance and macroeconomics, including fixed-income securities, equity valuation, portfolio choice, and household finance. His books include Financial Decisions and Markets: A Course in Asset Pricing (Princeton University Press 2018), The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System (with the Squam Lake Group of financial economists, PUP 2010), Strategic Asset Allocation: Portfolio Choice for Long-Term Investors (with Luis Viceira, Oxford University Press 2002), and The Econometrics of Financial Markets (with Andrew Lo and Craig MacKinlay, PUP 1997). Campbell delivered the Ely Lecture to the American Economic Association in 2016 and served as president of the American Finance Association in 2005. He is a research associate and former director of the program in asset pricing at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a corresponding fellow of the British Academy and honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He holds honorary doctorates from BI Norwegian Business School, the University of Maastricht, the University of Paris Dauphine, and Copenhagen Business School. Campbell cofounded Arrowstreet Capital LP, a Boston-based quantitative asset management company, and serves on the board.
Ron Feldman is first vice president and chief operating officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, where he leads Bank operations, including finance and budgeting, strategic planning, workforce and talent development, and performance against strategic objectives. Feldman is also a primary adviser on monetary policy, playing a leadership role in preparing for Federal Open Market Committee meetings and in the development and communication of positions on monetary policy. An expert on financial institutions and related government policies, Feldman has authored more than 50 articles on topics related to banking, finance, and monetary policy. He is one of the foremost authorities on the too-big-to-fail problem, co-authoring Too Big to Fail: The Hazards of Bank Bailouts, published by the Brookings Institution (2004). Since joining the Bank in 1995, Feldman has served as a senior officer for Supervision, Regulation, and Credit and has run the Financial Services Support Office, which assists in the oversight of the Federal Reserve's financial services. He has a BA with distinction from the University of Wisconsin and an MPA from the Maxwell School, Syracuse University, where he was a university fellow. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
Marc P. Giannoni is a managing director and chief US economist at Barclays. Prior to joining Barclays in 2022, he held positions as senior vice president and research director at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (2017–22), research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (2000–02, 2011–17), and associate professor at Columbia Business School (2002–10). A native of Switzerland, Giannoni began his career as an economist with the Swiss National Bank in Zurich. His research focuses on broad macroeconomic and policy issues, including monetary policy strategies, the transmission of monetary policy, interest rates and inflation determination, and labor markets. He co-led a team that developed the analytical work underlying the review of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy framework released in August 2020. He holds BA and MA degrees in economics from the University of Geneva and MA and PhD degrees in economics from Princeton University.
Julian di Giovanni is head of the Climate Risk Studies Department in the Research and Statistics Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His research focuses on international economics and macroeconomics. He is a research fellow of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and is codirector of Central Bank Research Association's international trade and macroeconomics program. Before the New York Fed, di Giovanni was a Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies research professor at the Universitat Pompeu of Fabra, research professor at the Barcelona School of Economics, a research associate at the Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), and worked in the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund. He has been a visiting assistant professor at the University of Toronto, and a short-term visitor at several central banks and international institutions. Di Giovanni's work has appeared in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Finance, Review of Economic Studies, and other top academic journals. He holds a joint-honors BA in economics and finance from McGill University and a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Steven Kelly is the associate director of research at the Yale School of Management's Program on Financial Stability. He is also the author of the popular finance blog Without Warning. His work focuses on financial stability and fighting crises in modern financial systems.
Luc Laeven is the director general of the Directorate General Research of the European Central Bank. He has previously worked at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. His research focuses on banking and international finance issues and is widely published in academic journals, including the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies. He coauthored Systemic Risk, Crises and Macroprudential Regulation (MIT Press) and coedited Systemic Financial Crises: Containment and Resolution (Cambridge University Press) and Deposit Insurance Around the World: Issues of Design and Implementation (MIT Press). He is a professor of finance at Tilburg University, research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, chair of the European System of Central Banks heads of research committee, chair of the steering committee of the Euro Area Business Cycle Network, editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, and member of the board of directors of TalentNomics. He studied at Tilburg University, the University of Amsterdam, and the London School of Economics.
Deborah Lucas is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy. Lucas's research lies at the intersection of finance and policy with a focus on fair value cost measurement, risk assessment, and evaluation of government financial policies. Projects include modeling and estimating financial subsidies to state-owned enterprises, valuing "too-big-to-fail" guarantees on large banks, evaluating the fiscal and macroeconomic implications of credit support and forbearance programs, creating a world atlas of government financial institutions, and analyzing government financial products such as reverse mortgages and credit risk transfer securities. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, term professor at the PBC School of Finance at Tsinghua University, and member of the Shadow Open Market Committee. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Public Administration and the National Academy of Social Insurance. She serves on advisory boards for the Urban Institute and the Peterson Institute and on the editorial board of the Annual Review of Financial Economics. She is an independent board member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and P/E Investments and a consultant for the Congressional Budget Office. Lucas received her BA, MA, and PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.
Antoine Martin is a member of the governing board of the Swiss National Bank (SNB). He heads the SNB's Department III, responsible for money market and foreign exchange, asset management, banking operations, and information technology. He previously served as a financial research adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His recent research and policy work has focused on short-term money markets, monetary policy implementation, and payments, including digital currencies. He has published in a number of scholarly journals, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Brookings Paper on Economic Activity, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. Martin holds a PhD in economics from the University of Minnesota and a BA in economics from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Robert N. McCauley is a nonresident senior fellow with the Global Economic Governance Initiative at Boston University's Global Development Policy Center and an associate member of the faculty of history at the University of Oxford. He does policy-relevant and market-savvy research on international financial markets, the international monetary system and corporate finance. His research spans the international monetary system (exorbitant privilege, Triffin dilemma), reserve management (currency and instrument composition), money, bond and foreign exchange markets (dollar zone, covered interest parity, nondeliverable forwards) and renminbi internationalization. He spent most of his career in central banking at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. A highlight of his policy work was his involvement in the creation of the Asian Bond Fund among central banks while working at the BIS Office for Asia and the Pacific in the 2000s. He represented the BIS Monetary and Economic Department on the Markets Committee of central bank market practitioners from 2008 until 2019. In 2023, Palgrave Macmillan published his coauthored 8th edition of the classic Manias, Panics, and Crashes, with new chapters on the 21st century international lender of last resort and crypto. He is working on The Domain of the Dollar, a monograph for the Studies in Macroeconomic History series at Cambridge University Press.
Susan McLaughlin is currently an executive fellow with the Yale School of Management's Program on Financial Stability, where she is writing and advising on lender-of-last-resort policy issues. Prior to her appointment, McLaughlin had a 30-year career at the New York Fed, with roles in the Markets Group spanning monetary policy implementation, foreign exchange reserves management, financial market structure, financial stability, lender-of-last-resort policy and operations, and fiscal agent matters. She was deeply involved in various aspects of the Fed's policy response to the global financial crisis in 2007–09 as head of the discount window in New York. Between 2010 and 2018, she served as a senior policy adviser in the Markets Group and led the Fed's successful reform of the triparty repo market. Most recently, she had senior management responsibility for managing and winding down a number of the emergency lending programs the New York Fed implemented as part of the Federal Reserve's policy response to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. McLaughlin holds a BA in East Asian Studies from Oberlin College, MBA and MPP degrees from the University of Michigan, and the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. She is also a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Camelia Minoiu is a research economist and adviser on the financial markets team in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Before joining the Atlanta Fed in 2022, she was a principal economist in the Division of Monetary Affairs at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and a senior economist in the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund. From 2016 to 2018, Minoiu spent a research sabbatical at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She received her doctorate in economics in 2007 from Columbia University and her master's degree in econometrics and mathematical economics in 2001 from London School of Economics. Minoiu's research interests are in the areas of financial intermediation, international finance, and international development, with a focus on banks. In many of her papers she studies the effects of macroeconomic policies and real and financial shocks on banks and firms. Her work emphasizes the critical role of the banking sector for financial access and economic growth. Minoiu has published papers in several leading economics and finance journals, including the Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of International Economics, and Journal of Development Economics.
Frederic S. Mishkin is the Alfred Lerner Professor of Banking and Financial Institutions at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and codirector of the US Monetary Policy Forum. From September 2006 to August 2008, he was a member of the Federal Reserve System Board of Governors. He has also been a senior fellow at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Center for Banking Research and past president of the Eastern Economic Association. Since receiving his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976, he has taught at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Princeton University, and Columbia. He has also received an honorary professorship from the People's (Renmin) University of China. From 1994 to 1997, he was executive vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and an associate economist of the Federal Open Market Committee. Mishkin's research focuses on monetary policy and its effect on financial markets and the aggregate economy. He is the author of The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, 13th Edition and more than 20 other books and has published over 200 articles in professional journals and books. Mishkin has served on the editorial board of the American Economic Review, been an associate editor at the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and was editor of the New York Fed's Economic Policy Review. He is currently an associate editor (member of the editorial board) at six academic journals–International Finance; Finance India; Review of Development Finance; Borsa Istanbul Review; Emerging Markets, Finance and Trade; and PSU Research Review. He has been a consultant to the Fed's Board of Governors, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, and to numerous central banks throughout the world. He was also a member of the International Advisory Board to the Financial Supervisory Service of South Korea, an adviser to the Institute for Monetary and Economic Research at the Bank of Korea, and a member of the New York Fed's economic and monetary policy advisory panels.
Fabio Natalucci is a deputy director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Monetary and Capital Markets Department with responsibility for the IMF's global financial markets monitoring and systemic risk assessment functions. He oversees the Global Financial Stability Report that gives the IMF's assessment of global financial stability risks and is also responsible for monitoring and evaluating risks and opportunities in sustainable finance markets. Prior to joining the IMF, Natalucci was a senior associate director in the Federal Reserve Board of Governors' Division of Monetary Affairs, where he conducted research and current analysis on the relationship between monetary policy, financial regulatory policy, and financial stability. Between October 2016 and June 2017, he was deputy assistant secretary for International Financial Stability and Regulation at the US Department of Treasury. His responsibilities included leading the United States' engagement on financial regulatory cooperation in the G20, representing the US Treasury at the Financial Stability Board, coordinating between domestic and international postcrisis regulatory reforms, and monitoring developments and vulnerabilities in global financial markets. Natalucci holds a PhD in economics from New York University.
William (Bill) Nelson is an executive vice president and chief economist at the Bank Policy Institute and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Previously, he served as executive managing director, chief economist, and head of research at the Clearing House Association and chief economist of the Clearing House Payments Company. Nelson contributed to and oversaw research and analysis to support the advocacy of the Clearing House Association on behalf of Clearing House's owner banks. Before joining the Clearing House in 2016, Nelson was a deputy director of the Division of Monetary Affairs at the Federal Reserve Board, where his responsibilities included monetary policy analysis, discount window policy analysis, and financial institution supervision. He was a member of the Large Institution Supervision Coordinating Committee and the steering committee of the Comprehensive Liquidity Analysis and Review. He has chaired and participated in several working groups with the Bank of International Settlements on the design of liquidity regulations. Nelson joined the Board in 1993 as an economist in the Banking section of Monetary Affairs. In 2004, he was the founding chief of the Monetary and Financial Stability section of Monetary Affairs. In 2007 and 2008, he visited the Bank for International Settlements, where his responsibilities included analyzing central banks' responses to the financial crisis and researching the use of forward guidance by central banks. He returned to the Board in the fall of 2008 and helped design and manage several of the Federal Reserve's emergency liquidity facilities. Nelson earned a PhD, an MS, and an MA in economics from Yale University and a BA from the University of Virginia. He has published research on a wide range of topics including monetary policy rules; monetary policy communications; and the intersection of monetary policy, lender of last resort policy, financial stability, and bank supervision and regulation.
José-Luis Peydró is a professor of finance at Imperial College Business School. His research on systemic risk, macroprudential policy, and the causes and effects of financial crises has made a significant contribution to the development of a new regulatory paradigm for the financial sector following the 2008 financial crisis. Peydró's research interests span a wide range of factors affecting financial system stability including credit markets, capital and liquidity, financial contagion, fintech and innovation in banking and financial services, and the globalization of finance. His research papers are among the most highly cited in banking and finance. His book written with Xavier Freixas and Luc Laeven, Systemic Risk, Crises, and Macroprudential Regulation (MIT Press 2015), made important steps in clarifying the meaning of systemic risk in the financial system and macroprudential policy, identified lending booms as the greatest threat to future financial stability, and suggested policy solutions. Peydró maintains extremely strong links with industry, policymakers, and regulators. He is a member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board, an adviser at the Bank of Spain, a consultant at the European Central Bank, and a research professor at Deutsche Bundesbank. He previously held a Houblon-Norman fellowship at the Bank of England and has held consultancy roles at the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve Board, the Bank of England, Banque de France, and the Reserve Bank of India. He has presented his research at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Stanford University, Columbia University, New York University, London School of Economics, University of Oxford, and London Business School. He has taught in-company executive education at the European Central Bank, Central Bank of Portugal, and the Bundesbank, and courses at the Florence School of Banking and Finance. He is also program director for FinTech: Innovative Banking, the Imperial College Business School's executive education program. Based in London and Barcelona, Peydró is a Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies professor of economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, a research professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, a Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional research associate, and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research.
Lucrezia Reichlin is professor of economics at the London Business School, an external fellow at Bruegel, a Brussels-based think tank, and chair of the Group of National Schools of Economics and Statistics in Paris. A macroeconomist and econometrician, she has pioneered methods for the economic analysis of large dimensional data and now-casting and cofounded the company Now-Casting Economics Limited in 2011. She was director general of research at the European Central Bank from 2005 to 2008. Reichlin is a fellow of the British Academy and of the Econometric Society, an honorary international fellow of the American Economic Association, and a distinguished fellow of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. She was a trustee of the International Financial Reporting Standard Foundation and has led its work for the establishment of the International Sustainability Standards Board. She is also a board member of several research institutions and of a few commercial companies. She is the founder of the Ortygia Foundation, a nonprofit committed to supporting female education in southern Italy.
Philip E. Strahan holds the John L. Collins, S.J. Chair in Finance at Boston College's Carroll School of Management. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow at the Wharton Financial Institutions Center. Previously, he spent seven years in the Research and Market Analysis Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He received a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1993. His research interests include the structure, efficiency, and risk management practices of the financial services industry. He has articles published in the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies, among others. He is also an editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation.
Paula Tkac is executive vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and a member of the executive leadership committee. She leads the economic research and policy function and the Regional Economic Information Network in the Research Division. She also serves as a senior monetary policy adviser and is actively involved in strategic leadership at the Division and organizational levels. As an economist, she has conducted research on asset management industry, financial regulation, the municipal bond market, and policy responses to financial crises. Her research has won two William F. Sharpe Awards from the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. She frequently speaks to private sector and community groups on issues related to monetary policy, financial regulation, and leadership. She has also appeared on C-SPAN and as an op-ed writer in the Wall Street Journal. Before joining the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta in 2000, she was on the University of Notre Dame's finance department faculty. She earned her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in economics from the University of Chicago.
Larry Wall is an economist emeritus for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and former research center executive director of the Center for Financial Innovation and Stability (CenFIS). CenFIS was created to improve knowledge of financial innovation and financial stability and the connection between the two. He joined the financial structure team of the Bank's Research Department in 1982 and was promoted to executive director of the CenFIS in 2013. In addition to pursuing his research agenda, he leads CenFIS's activities and provides policy advice. A certified public accountant, he has served on a number of editorial boards. He is also on the academic advisory panel of the International Association of Deposit Insurers. He is a past president and chairman of the trustees of the Eastern Finance Association. He has also been an adjunct faculty member of Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. A native of Grand Forks, North Dakota, he earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of North Dakota and a doctoral degree in business from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Kevin Warsh is the Shepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Warsh is a partner at Duquesne Family Office LLC and on the board of directors of UPS and Coupang. He is a member of the Group of Thirty and the panel of economic advisers of the Congressional Budget Office. Warsh conducts extensive research in the field of economics and finance. He issued an independent report to the Bank of England proposing reforms in the conduct of monetary policy in the United Kingdom, and Parliament adopted the report's recommendations. Warsh was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2006 until 2011. He was the Federal Reserve's representative to the G20 and the Board's emissary to emerging and advanced economies in Asia. He was also administrative governor, managing and overseeing the Board's operations, personnel, and financial performance. From 2002 until 2006, Warsh was special assistant to the president for economic policy and executive secretary of the White House National Economic Council. Previously, he was a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions department at Morgan Stanley, serving as vice president and executive director. Warsh received his AB from Stanford University and JD from Harvard Law School.
David Wessel is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, the mission of which is to improve the quality of fiscal and monetary policies and public understanding of them. He joined Brookings in December 2013 after 30 years at the Wall Street Journal, where most recently he was economics editor and wrote the weekly Capital column. He appears frequently on NPR's Morning Edition and tweets often at @davidmwessel. Wessel is the author of two New York Times bestsellers: In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic (2009) and Red Ink: Inside the High Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget (2012). His most recent book is Only the Rich Can Play: How Washington Works in the New Gilded Age (2021), the story of opportunity zones. He has shared two Pulitzer Prizes, in 1984 for a Boston Globe series on the persistence of racism in Boston and in 2003 for Wall Street Journal stories on corporate scandals. He is a member of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Data Users Advisory Committee. He also has taught in the Dartmouth Tuck School of Business Global 2030 executive education program and in the journalism program at Princeton University. A native of New Haven, Connecticut, and a product of its public schools, Wessel is a 1975 graduate of Haverford College. He was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics Journalism at Columbia University in 1980–81.
David Zervos is chief market strategist at Jefferies LLC. He joined Jefferies in 2010 after spending 2009 as a visiting adviser in the Division of Monetary Affairs at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, DC. Prior to the position at the Federal Reserve, he held a variety of research, sales, and trading positions in the private sector, most recently managing global macro portfolios for Brevan Howard and UBS O'Connor. He began his career as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board in the early 1990s. He received a BSc from Washington University and an MA and PhD in economics from the University of Rochester.