Join us for this event in which John C. Williams, New York Fed President, will be joining Ricardo Reis, Director of the Centre for Macroeconomics, to discuss the intersection of academics, research, and policy. Topics will include monetary policy challenges, inflation, and how research informs policy decisions.
Meet our speaker and chair
John C. Williams is the president and chief executive officer of the New York Fed. In that capacity, he serves as the vice chair and a permanent voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee. Before joining the New York Fed in 2018, Mr. Williams was the president and CEO of the San Francisco Fed, which he first joined in 2002 and subsequently served as research director. He began his career as an economist at the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, and he has also served in roles at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
Ricardo Reis (R2Rsquared) is Director of the Centre for Macroeconomics and A. W. Phillips Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at LSE.
More about this event
The Centre For Macroeconomics (@CFMUK) is a research centre that brings together a group of world class experts to carry out pioneering research on the study of nations’ prosperity, and the crises that afflict them, helping to design policies that will create a healthier and more resilient economy.
The LSE School of Public Policy (@LSEPublicPolicy) equips you with the skills and ideas to transform people and societies. It is an international community where ideas and practice meet. Their approach creates professionals with the ability to analyse, understand and resolve the challenges of contemporary governance.
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