A Conversation with Alberto Musalem, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Join us for a conversation between Ricardo Reis, A. W. Phillips Professor of Economics, and Alberto Musalem, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, where they will talk about monetary policy and recent economic trends.

Meet our speaker and chair

Alberto G. Musalem is the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. In this role, he participates on the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which sets the direction of U.S. monetary policy. He also oversees the activities of the Eighth Federal Reserve District which spans all of Arkansas and parts of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee.

President Musalem is an economist and executive with more than three decades of public and private sector experience in economic policy, finance and markets. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ricardo Reis (@R2Rsquared) is the A.W. Phillips Professor of Economics at LSE. Recent honours include the 2022 Carl Menger prize, the 2021 Yrjo Jahnsson medal, election for the Econometric Society in 2019, the 2017 BdF/TSE junior prize, and the 2016 Bernacer prize. He is an academic consultant at the Bank of England, the Riksbank, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, directs the Centre for Macroeconomics, and serves on the council of, or as an advisor to, multiple organisations.

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