Leslie Sheng Shen is a senior economist in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Research Department. Her research focuses on international finance, banking, and macroeconomics, covering financial and banking globalization, geopolitical risk, capital flows, financial networks, and household consumption. She is also a visiting scholar at the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy and an instructor at Harvard University. Before joining the Boston Fed, Shen worked at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She received her PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.