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Kenechukwu E. Anadu

Kenechukwu E. Anadu is a vice president in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Supervision, Regulation, and Credit Department, where he co-heads the Supervisory Research and Analysis (SRA) Unit. SRA conducts research and analysis on the risks to financial stability arising from banks and nonbanks and supports the Boston Fed’s participation in numerous Federal Reserve System initiatives, including the stress-testing program and the quantitative surveillance assessment of financial stability. Kenechukwu is also the co-chair of the Federal Reserve System’s monitoring and analysis program for the largest, most systemically important banks. Before joining the Boston Fed, Kenechukwu was a fixed-income analyst at the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board. He previously taught corporate finance at UMass Amherst and Babson College. He earned his BSc from Northeastern University and his MBA from Babson College. He holds the CFA and CAIA designations.

Boston Fed President & CEO Susan M. Collins. February 6, 2022.

Susan M. Collins

Susan M. Collins is president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, which is part of the US central bank. She is a participant on the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets US monetary policy. Collins, who took office in 2022, oversees all the Boston Fed’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. She began her career on the economics department faculty at Harvard University and then spent many years dividing her time as a professor of economics at Georgetown University and 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 serving as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and the Edward M. Gramlich Collegiate Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics. She previously served for a decade as the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of the university’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Collins earned a PhD in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her undergraduate degree at Harvard.

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Lin William Cong

Lin William Cong is the Rudd Family Professor of Management and a tenured professor of finance at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He is the founding faculty director for the school’s FinTech Initiative and the founder of the Digital Economy and Financial Technology Lab. He is also a faculty scientist at the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies & Contracts. Cong has been invited to consult for or advise government and regulatory agencies such as the Asset Management Association of China, the Bank of Canada, the US Department of Justice, the FBI, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Cong’s research spans financial economics, information economics, fintech, the digital economy, and entrepreneurship. His team has pioneered the introduction of goal-oriented search and interpretable AI for finance, laid the foundations of tokenomics, analyzed centralization issues and dynamic incentives in blockchains and DeFi, and developed data analytics for detecting market manipulation and better fintech regulation. Cong has a PhD in finance and an MS in statistics from Stanford University and an AM in physics and an AB in math and physics from Harvard University.

A portrait of Mohammad Davoodalhosseini.

Mohammad Davoodalhosseini

Mohammad Davoodalhosseini is a research advisor in the Bank of Canada Banking and Payments Department. His research interests can be classified into two broad categories: monetary economics and search theory. In the field of monetary economics, he investigates new developments in electronic money and payments, exploring how the introduction of a central bank digital currency can impact the implementation and transmission of monetary policy as well as the efficiency and stability of the financial system. In the field of search theory, he has conducted extensive research on the role of information asymmetries in markets with search frictions, applying these insights to inter-bank, labor, and over-the-counter markets. Davoodalhosseini received his PhD in economics from the Pennsylvania State University.

A portrait of Slavka Eley.

Slavka Eley

Slavka Eley is the head of governance and coordination for the European Labour Authority (ELA). The Governance and Coordination Unit covers a range of horizontal and corporate issues, including development of strategy, governing-bodies operation, external relations, horizontal-policy coordination of ELA operational activities, internal governance, and communication and information campaigns across the European Union (EU). She led the preparation of the ELA’s 2022 Framework for Actions in Road Transport and oversaw its implementation. She established the ELA’s social partners liaison function and oversees the authority’s Brussels liaison office. Before joining the ELA, Eley worked in financial regulation and supervision. She joined the European Banking Authority (EBA) in 2013 and held various management positions involving financial innovation, digital finance, capital market union, and sustainable finance. She led the development of a common EU supervisory framework for banking supervisors. Before joining the EBA, Eley worked for more than a decade at the National Bank of Slovakia, where she held several management positions in banking supervision and policy development. She holds an MBA in general management from the City University of Seattle and a master’s degree in mathematics and physics from the Comenius University Bratislava.

A portrait of Fiorella De Fiore.

Fiorella De Fiore

Fiorella De Fiore is research adviser at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. She previously held the position of head of monetary policy in the Monetary and Economic Department of the BIS and was an adviser in the Monetary Policy Research Division and in the Financial Research Division of the European Central Bank. Her current research spans various areas of relevance for central banks, including the role of financial market developments for the macroeconomy and for the conduct of monetary policy, the impact of financial innovation on the transmission of monetary policy, the evolving monetary policy frameworks, and the effectiveness of central banks’ communication. De Fiore holds a BSc in economics and social sciences from Bocconi University, an MSc in economics from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in economics from the European University Institute.

A portrait of Jeff Fuhrer.

Jeff Fuhrer

Jeff Fuhrer is a nonresident fellow for the Brookings Institution and a foundation fellow for the Eastern Bank Foundation. He recently published The Myth That Made Us, which received the Axiom Business Books Award silver medal in economics. The book explores the link between widely held but false narratives about poverty and race and poor outcomes for many in the US economy. In addition, he is working with a large collaborative to update the findings of the Federal Reserve’s 2015 “Color of Wealth in Boston” study. This group hopes to use the new findings to design programs and policies to close the wealth gap in the Greater Boston metro area and surrounding communities. Fuhrer recently finished a 2 1/2–year term as a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. In that capacity, he conducted research on the Federal Reserve’s new monetary policy framework and on sources of the racial and ethnic wealth gaps. Fuhrer previously served as director of research, executive vice president, and senior policy advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Fuhrer earned an AB in economics from Princeton University and received his MA and PhD in economics from Harvard University.

A portrait of Hanna Halaburda.

Hanna Halaburda

Hanna Halaburda is an associate professor of technology, operations, and statistics at New York University Stern School of Business. Halaburda studies how technology changes economic forces and thus affects business models and interactions in the marketplace. One strand of her work focuses on competition between digital platforms. Starting in 2011, she has built a research program in digital currencies and blockchain technologies that includes analyses of incentives in consensus protocols, cryptocurrency adoption, smart contracts, and token issuance. In 2015, Halaburda coauthored Beyond Bitcoin: The Economics of Digital Currency, the first book analyzing digital currencies from an economic perspective. Before joining NYU Stern, Halaburda was an assistant professor at Harvard Business School and a senior economist at the Bank of Canada. She holds a PhD in economics from Northwestern University, a master’s degree in economics from the Warsaw School of Economics, and a master’s degree in philosophy from Warsaw University.

A portrait of Victoria Ivashina.

Victoria Ivashina

Victoria Ivashina is the Lovett-Learned Professor of Finance and head of the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research, and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Ivashina co-heads Harvard Business School’s PrivaCapital Initiative and Private Equity and Venture Capital executive education program. She is a co-author of Patient Capital: The Challenges and Promises of Long-Term Investing and Private Equity: A Casebook. Her research spans multiple areas of financial intermediation, including corporate credit markets, global banking operations, asset allocation by pension funds and insurance companies, and value creation by private equity. Ivashina serves as an associate editor at the Journal of Finance. She is an independent trustee of the Carlyle AlpInvest Private Markets Fund. She holds a PhD in finance from New York University Stern School of Business.

A portrait of Julapa Jagtiani.

Julapa Jagtiani

Julapa Jagtiani is a senior economic advisor and an economist in the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Supervision, Regulation, and Credit Department; a central bank research fellow at the Bank for International Settlements; and a fellow member of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center. She was previously a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and an associate professor of finance at Baruch College of the City University of New York. At the Philadelphia Fed, Jagtiani has participated in several supervisory policy initiatives, including the Basel Retail Qualification, the CCAR Stress Testing, and more recently, the Fintech Supervision program. Jagtiani also leads the Philadelphia Fed’s efforts in organizing the bank’s Annual Fintech Conference, which brings together world-renowned experts to discuss fintech innovations, cryptocurrencies, real-time payments, DeFi, AI, quantum computing, and potential policy solutions. Jagtiani received a PhD in finance and an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business, where she held the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship.

A portrait of Charles M. Kahn.

Charles M. Kahn

Charles M. Kahn is a professor emeritus of finance and economics at the University of Illinois, where he served as chair of the Finance Department and co-director of the Office for Banking Research. He is a specialist in financial intermediation and contracting theory and a leading authority on the economics of payments. Kahn serves currently as a visiting scholar at the Bank of Canada and has also served regularly as a research fellow at Federal Reserve banks and as a consultant for international organizations and central banks worldwide. He is the coauthor (with William Roberds of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta) of one of the first scholarly reviews of the literature on the economics of payments, "Why Pay? An Introduction to Payments Economics,” and editor of the Henry Stewart Talks Series "Effective Oversight of Payment and Settlement Systems," which surveys the field. His recent work focuses on new technologies in payments and financial intermediation, including central bank digital currencies and decentralized finance. Kahn received his undergraduate degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University and his doctorate in economics from Harvard University.

A portrait of Mattia Landoni.

Mattia Landoni

Mattia Landoni is a senior financial economist in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Supervision, Regulation and Credit Department, where his research focuses on regulation and contracting. Before joining the Boston Fed, he taught corporate finance at Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business and worked in the International Monetary Fund Research Department. Landoni graduated with a PhD in financial economics from Columbia Business School and a master’s degree in public policy from Duke’s Sanford Institute of Public Policy.

A portrait of Andrew Levin.

Andrew Levin

Andrew Levin is a professor of economics at Dartmouth College. In addition to being a regular visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, he has served as an external consultant to the European Central Bank, an external adviser to the Bank of Korea, a scientific advisor to the central banks of Norway and Sweden, a consultant to the government of Australia’s review of the Reserve Bank of Australia, and a visiting scholar at the central banks of Canada, Japan, Netherlands, and New Zealand. He has also provided technical assistance to the central banks of Albania, Argentina, Ghana, Macedonia, and Ukraine. Levin worked at the Federal Reserve Board for two decades, including two years as a special adviser to the chair and vice chair on monetary policy strategy and communications. He received his PhD in economics from Stanford University and his BA in economics and mathematics from Yale University.

A portrait of Adair Morse.

Adair Morse

Adair Morse is the William A. and Betty H. Hasler Chair in New Enterprise Development and professor of finance at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law and Business and the founding faculty director of the Sustainable and Impact Finance Initiative at Berkeley-Haas. Recent policy service includes serving as deputy assistant secretary for capital access at the US Department of the Treasury (2021 to 2022), co-founding the pandemic-relief public-private partnership California Rebuilding Fund (2020), and serving on the expert panel for oversight of the Global Fund for the Ministry of Finance of Norway (2015 to 2020). She is supporting the transition economy and climate workforce/finance initiatives as a Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellow and continues to work informally with the White House and federal departments on supply chains, industrial strategy, and workforce. She is an award-winning teacher of new venture finance, impact investing, and sustainable investing, and she created the climate, sustainable, and impact finance curriculum at Berkeley-Haas. Adair’s research spans multiple areas of finance: household finance, fintech, discrimination, climate finance, and small-business fiscal programs. Morse has a PhD in finance from the University of Michigan, master’s degrees in statistics and agricultural economics from Purdue University, and a bachelor’s degree from Colgate University.

A portrait of Christine A. Parlour.

Christine A. Parlour

Christine A. Parlour is the Sylvan C. Coleman Chair of Finance and Accounting at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also the co-director of the Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence. Most of her work is in institutionally complex areas, such as market microstructure and banking. Her current work focuses on changes in the payments system and the effects on bank balance sheets. Parlour has been on the Nasdaq Economic Advisory Board and is currently on the steering committee for the New Special Study of Securities Markets. She has a PhD and an MA in economics from Queen’s University at Kingston and a BSocSci from the University of Ottawa.

A portrait of Jermy Prenio.

Jermy Prenio

Jermy Prenio is a principal advisor for the Financial Stability Institute (FSI) at the Bank for International Settlements. He is involved in managing the FSI’s outreach program for financial supervisors. He contributes to the FSI’s published work, mainly on technology-related topics such as fintech, suptech, and cyber security, and develops other policy-related material for FSI Connect. Prenio also manages the activities of the Informal Suptech Network and coordinates the FSI’s work related to financial inclusion. Previously, Prenio was deputy director for regulatory affairs at the Institute of International Finance in Washington, DC, where he led the formulation of the global banking industry’s views on international regulatory issues. He also worked as a regulator in the Philippines, where he headed the Task Force on Basel II Implementation.

A portrait of Eric S. Rosengren.

Eric S. Rosengren

Eric S. Rosengren was the 13th president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Golub Center for Finance and Policy. Rosengren began his term as the Boston Fed’s president in July 2007 after serving in various roles at the Bank since 1985. He retired in 2021. Rosengren held senior positions within the Boston Fed in both the research and bank supervision functions. He joined the Bank as an economist in the research department and was promoted to assistant vice president and then to vice president in 1991 as head of the research department’s banking and monetary policy section. Rosengren was named senior vice president and head of the supervision and regulation department in 2000, assumed the additional title of chief discount officer in 2003, and in 2005, he was promoted to executive vice president. While in the bank supervision function, he obtained significant domestic and international regulatory experience related to the Basel II Capital Accord. In his work as an economist, Rosengren has made the link between financial problems and the real economy a focus of his research, and he has published extensively on macroeconomics, international banking, bank supervision, and risk management. Rosengren earned his master’s degree and PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his bachelor’s degree in economics from Colby College, where he graduated summa cum laude.

A portrait of Fabio Schiantarelli.

Fabio Schiantarelli

Fabio Schiantarelli is a professor of economics at Boston College. His research interests include the effects of financial constraints, financial shocks, and product market regulation on investment and employment; firms’ financing choices; financial constraints and pricing decisions; financial reform, allocative efficiency, saving, and capital accumulation; the evolution of culture and economic performance; and ancestry composition and local development in the United States. Before joining the faculty at Boston College, Schiantarelli taught at Boston University, Essex University, and the University of Southampton. He has consulted on several projects for the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. Schiantarelli has a PhD and an MS in economics from the London School of Economics and a BS in economics from Bocconi University.

A portrait of Joanna Stavins.

Joanna Stavins

Joanna Stavins is a senior economist and policy advisor in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Research Department. Her research and policy work focus on understanding how and why consumers use particular payment instruments and include all aspects of consumer payment behavior. While she was with the research department’s Consumer Payments Research Center, Stavins analyzed the costs of alternative payment instruments and the demand for those instruments. She also estimated social costs and benefits of various payment methods. Stavins has served as an economic advisor to payments groups within and outside the Federal Reserve System and has worked on many Federal Reserve payments-related policy initiatives. She joined the Boston Fed in 1995 after working as a senior analyst at National Economic Research Associates. She earned her BA and PhD in economics at Harvard University.

A portrait of Jenny Tang.

Jenny Tang

Jenny Tang is a vice president and economist in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Research Department, where she heads the macroeconomics international group. Her research interests include macroeconomics, monetary policy, and international finance. She earned her BS in economics and international business at New York University and her MA and PhD in economics at Harvard University.

A portrait of Christina Wang.

J. Christina Wang

J. Christina Wang is a senior economist and policy advisor in the macroeconomic/financial markets section of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Research Department. Wang’s research interests include exploring the nature of financial technology to understand why nonbank institutions (such as fintech firms) have emerged to supply financial services traditionally provided by banks, and how financial regulations need to adapt. Wang’s research also analyzes the impact of financial frictions on the business cycle, as well as the cyclical properties of productivity. Wang received her BA in economics from Tsinghua University in China. She earned her PhD in economics at the University of Michigan and her MA in economics at the University of Western Ontario.

A portrait of Lawrence J. White.

Lawrence J. White

Lawrence J. White is the Robert Kavesh Professor of Economics at New York University Stern School of Business. White has been with NYU Stern for more than 48 years. His primary research areas of interest include financial regulation, antitrust, network industries, international banking and applied microeconomics. He is the author of The S&L Debacle: Public Policy Lessons for Bank and Thrift Regulation, among other books, and he is the co-editor (with John Kwoka) of the seventh edition of The Antitrust Revolution and most recently a co-editor (with John Kwoka and Tommaso Valletti) of Antitrust Economics at a Time of Upheaval: Recent Competition Policy Cases on Two Continents. He contributed chapters to the NYU Stern books on the financial crisis, Restoring Financial Stability and Regulating Wall Street. He is a co-author of Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance. He co-edited and contributed to NYU Stern’s book Regulating Wall Street: CHOICE Act vs. Dodd-Frank, and he contributed to NYU Stern’s most recent book, SVB and Beyond: The Banking Stress of 2023. White has a PhD and an AB in economics from Harvard University and an MSc in economics from the London School of Economics.

A portrait of Emily Williams.

Emily Williams

Emily Williams is an assistant professor of business administration in the finance unit at Harvard Business School. Williams’ research focuses on financial intermediation, traditional intermediation and payments, the use of technology in financial intermediation, and the financial services offered to the underbanked. Williams earned her MA in mathematics from Warwick University. After working in various industry roles, she received her MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and her PhD in finance at London Business School.

A portrait of Egon Zakrajšek.

Egon Zakrajšek

Egon Zakrajšek is an executive vice president and the director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Research Department. Among Zakrajšek’s primary responsibilities is oversight of the work of the department, including economic analysis for the monetary policy deliberations of the Bank’s president and board of directors. Zakrajšek’s policy and research interests focus on macrofinance, banking, inflation dynamics, and monetary policy. Previously, Zakrajšek was a senior advisor in the monetary and economic department of the Bank for International Settlements. He began his career in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and later joined the division of Monetary Affairs at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He holds a PhD in economics from New York University.