Brown University
Biography
Christina Hull Paxson is president of Brown University and professor of economics and public policy. She served on the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Board of Directors from 2016 – 2022. Prior to her appointment at Brown in 2012, she was dean of the Princeton School of International and Public Affairs and the Hughes Rogers Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. While at Princeton, Paxson also served as chair of the Department of Economics. In addition, she was founding director of the National Institute on Aging Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging and was a founder of the Center for Health and Wellbeing. She served as vice president of the American Economic Association in 2012 and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2020, Paxson was appointed chair of the board of directors for the Association of American Universities. Paxson joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Board of Directors in 2016 and served as deputy chair from 2019 – 2020. She served as chair of the Board from 2021 – 2022.