Janet Louise Yellen is an American economist serving as the 78th United States secretary of the treasury since January 26,2021. She previously served as the 15th chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018. She is the first woman to hold either post,and has also led the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Yellen is the Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor of Business Administration and Economics at the University of California,Berkeley.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston,commonly known as the Boston Fed,is responsible for the First District of the Federal Reserve,which covers New England:Maine,Massachusetts,New Hampshire,Rhode Island,Vermont and all of Connecticut except Fairfield County. The code of the Bank is A1,meaning that dollar bills from this Bank will have the letter A on them. The Boston Fed describes its mission as promoting "growth and financial stability in New England and the nation". The Boston Fed also includes the New England Public Policy Center.
The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) is the international affairs and public policy school of Columbia University,a private Ivy League university located in Morningside Heights,Manhattan,New York City. SIPA offers Master of International Affairs (MIA) and Master of Public Administration (MPA) degrees in a range of fields,as well as the Executive MPA and PhD program in Sustainable Development.
Richard W. Fisher is the former President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas,having served in that post from April 2005 to 2015. He is a Senior Advisor to Barclays Plc,a British bank holding company,a Director of PepsiCo,and a Senior Contributing Editor for CNBC. From 2011 to 2017,he served on the Harvard Board of Overseers.
Robert Zachary Lawrence is a South Africa-born American economist and Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is also a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics,and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Eric S. Rosengren took office on July 20,2007,as the thirteenth president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston,serving the First District. As a Fed president,he was a participant and voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee. He retired on September 30,2021.
James Harold Stock is an American economist,professor of economics,and vice provost for climate and sustainability at Harvard University. He is co-author of Introduction to Econometrics,a leading undergraduate textbook,and co-editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Stock served as a Chair of the Harvard Economics Department from 2007 to 2009 and as a member of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2014.
Lael Brainard is an American economist serving as the 14th director of the National Economic Council since February 21,2023. She previously served as the 22nd vice chair of the Federal Reserve between May 2022 and February 2023. Prior to her term as vice chair,Brainard served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors,taking office in 2014. Before her appointment to the Federal Reserve,she served as the under secretary of the treasury for international affairs from 2010 to 2013.
Betsy Duke is an American bank executive who served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 2008 to 2013. Duke was confirmed by the Senate to fill an unexpired term ending January 31,2012. She was the seventh woman to be appointed to the board. In July 2013,she announced her resignation from the board.
The American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE) is a professional association of economists in the United States that promotes the representation of Hispanic Americans within the economics profession and supports economic research relevant to Hispanic Americans. ASHE is recognized by the American Economic Association as one of the academic organizations comprising the Allied Social Sciences Associations.
Christina Hull Paxson is an American economist and public health expert serving as the 19th president of Brown University. Previously,she was the Hughes Rogers Professor of Economics &Public Affairs at Princeton University as well as the dean of Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.
Michael S. Barr is an American legal scholar who has been serving as second vice chair of the Federal Reserve for supervision since 2022. From 2009 to 2011,he was assistant secretary of the treasury for financial institutions under President Barack Obama. At the University of Michigan,he has been serving as faculty member since 2001,professor of law since 2006,professor of public policy since 2014.
Betsey Ayer Stevenson is an economist and Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Additionally,she is a fellow of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich,a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and servers on the board of the American Economic Association. The Obama Administration announced her appointment as a Member of the Council of Economic Advisers,a post she served from 2013 through 2015. She previously served as Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor under Secretary Hilda Solis from 2010 to 2011. Previously,she was an assistant professor of Business and Public Policy,at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Susan Meredith Phillips is an American economist who served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 1991 to 1998. She was the third woman to sit on the Board. After leaving the Fed,Phillips served as dean of the George Washington University School of Business from 1998 to 2010.
Kim E. Schatzel is an American academic administrator who is the 19th president of the University of Louisville. She joined Eastern Michigan University in January 2012 as provost and executive vice president of academic and student affairs,and became interim president on July 8,2015,following the resignation of Susan Martin. Schatzel was previously dean of the college of business at University of Michigan–Dearborn. On November 30,2022,she was announced as the next president of University of Louisville and began her tenure on February 1,2023.
Susan Marie Dynarski is an American economist who is currently professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is also a faculty research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Lisa DeNell Cook is an American economist who has served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since May 23,2022. She is the first African American woman and first woman of color to sit on the Board. Before her appointment to the Federal Reserve,she was elected to the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Claudia Rae Sahm is an American economist,currently serving as Chief Economist for New Century Advisors. She is also the founder of Sahm Consulting. Claudia was formerly director of macroeconomic policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth,and a Section Chief at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System,where she worked in various capacities from 2007 to 2019. Sahm specializes in macroeconomics and household finance. She is best known for the development of the Sahm rule,a Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) indicator for identifying recessions in real-time.
Yu-Chin Chen is an economist and researcher at the University of Washington. Her research fields include international finance,macroeconomics,open economy macroeconomics,trade and development,and applied economics. She has served as a staff economist for the Clinton administration and is currently an economics professor at the University of Washington. Classes she teaches include Macroeconomic Analysis,International Financial Monetary Economics,and Computational Finance and Financial Econometrics.
Lisa M. Lynch is an American economist working as Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management and Director of the Institute for Economic and Racial Equity. She was previously Provost and Interim President of Brandeis University and Dean of the Heller School,a faculty member at Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Ohio State University,and University of Bristol,and a co-editor of the Journal of Labor Economics. She is a past chief economist of the United States Department of Labor,chair of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston,and president of the Labor and Employment Relations Association.
