WRRB 39th Annual Meeting

Doors Open: 4:30PM

Program: 5:00-6:15PM

Reception: 6:15-7:00PM

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, she participates on the Federal Open Market Committee, the monetary

policymaking body of the United States. Since taking office in July 2022, Collins

oversees 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. She

contributed previously within the Federal Reserve System, serving for nine years on

the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (three as a director for

the Detroit branch), starting in 2013.

Collins is a widely published international macroeconomist, with a lifelong interest

in policy and its impact on living standards. Her research includes work on the

determinants of economic growth, exchange rate regimes and economic performance,

implications of global integration for U.S. labor markets, persistent macroeconomic

imbalances, and countries’ economic transformations.

Collins began her career on the economics department faculty at Harvard University

and then spent many years dividing her time as a Professor at Georgetown University

and a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution.

Collins earned a Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and

a B.A. in economics at Harvard University, summa cum laude.

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