Live Webinar, April 10th, 12:30 PM
CFA Society Cleveland and The City Club Present:
Maintaining Economic Health During a Crisis
Have questions for Dr. Mester, CFA CLE members can submit questions in advance or
text them to (330) 541-5794 and identify themselves as CFA Society Cleveland members and The City Club will try and get them answered
Loretta J. Mester
took office on June 1, 2014, as the 11th president and chief executive
officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
Dr. Mester began
her career as an economist at the Philadelphia Fed in 1985, and has been
attending meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee since 2000,
when she was named senior vice president and director of research. She
is an adjunct professor of finance at the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania and is a fellow at the Wharton Financial
Institutions Center. She has published numerous articles in refereed
academic and professional journals on economics, central banking, and
other topics, and is the managing editor of the International Journal of
Central Banking and co-editor of the Journal of Financial Services
Research.
She graduated
with a BA in mathematics and economics from Barnard College of Columbia
University and earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Princeton
University.
President Mester will discuss her views on the U.S. economic outlook and monetary policy.
