Christopher Cotton is an economist in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Research Department. He joined the Boston Fed in 2019 after earning his PhD in economics from Columbia University. His fields of specialization are macroeconomics and monetary economics. He has worked primarily on issues related to low inflation.

Cotton obtained a BSc in economics from the London School of Economics and a master’s in economics from the Toulouse School of Economics. He was a dissertation fellow at the Federal Reserve Board in 2018.