- Eric S. Rosengren
Eric S. Rosengren took office on
July 23 ,2007 , as the thirteenth president and chief executive officer of theFederal Reserve Bank of Boston , serving the First District. He serves the remainder of a term that began on March 1, 2006. In 2007, he is a voting member of theFederal Open Market Committee .Dr. Rosengren was born on
June 3 ,1957 , inRidgewood, New Jersey . He graduated summa cum laude fromColby College with a B.A. and highest honors in economics. He then spent one year inAustralia as a Thomas Watson Fellow. Following his year in Australia, he went to theUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison , where he earned an M.S. ineconomics in 1984 and a Ph.D. in economics in 1986.Dr. Rosengren has held senior positions within the
Federal Reserve in both the research and bank supervision functions. He joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in 1985 as an economist in the Research Department. He was promoted to Assistant Vice President in 1989 and to Vice President in 1991 as head of the Banking and Monetary Policy section of the Research Department. In 2000, he was named Senior Vice President and head of the Supervision and Regulation Department. He assumed the additional title of Chief Discount Officer in 2003, and in 2005, he was named Executive Vice President. While in the bank supervision function, he obtained significant domestic and international regulatory experience related to theBasel II Capital Accord.In his work as an economist, Dr. 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. He has been an author on over 100 articles and papers on economics and finance, including articles in many of the top economics and finance journals.
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* [http://www.federalreserve.gov/bios/pres01.htm Biography] at the
Federal Reserve System Web site.External links
* [http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/econbios/rosengre.htm Boston Fed biography]
* [http://www.federalreserve.gov/bios/pres01.htm Federal Reserve Bank biography]
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