Susan M. Collins

Susan M. Collins is president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, one of 12 regional reserve banks in the Federal Reserve System, the U.S. central bank. In this role, Collins participates on the Federal Open Market Committee, the monetary policymaking body of the United States. Since taking office in July 2022, Collins has overseen all of the Bank’s activities, including economic research and analysis; banking supervision and financial stability efforts; community economic development activities; and a wide range of payments, technology, and finance initiatives.

Collins is a widely published international macroeconomist with a lifelong interest in policy and its impact on living standards. Her research includes analyses of the determinants of growth across a wide range of countries, integrating careful data work with growth accounting, regression, and case study approaches.  Collins’ research also explores exchange rate regimes and economic performance, the implications of global integration for U.S. labor markets, and persistent macroeconomic imbalances, among other topics.

Collins began her career on the faculty of the economics department at Harvard University. She later became a professor of economics at Georgetown University while serving as a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution. Prior to leading the Boston Fed, Collins spent 15 years at the University of Michigan. Most recently, she was provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and the Edward M. Gramlich Collegiate Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics. She had earlier served as the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of the university’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

Previously, Collins was a member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. She served on the boards of the Petersen Institute of International Economics and the National Bureau of Economic Research. She was also named one of the American Economic Association’s four Distinguished Fellows for 2025.

Collins earned a doctorate in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree in economics at Harvard University.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston serves the First Federal Reserve District, which covers the six New England states: Connecticut (except for Fairfield County), Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.