Thursday, April 11, 2024

Susan M. Collins

President and CEO
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

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Moderator:
Abby Joseph Cohen
Professor of Business: Economics
Division, Columbia Business School
Retired Partner, Goldman Sachs

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, Collins participates on the Federal Open Market Committee, the monetary policy making 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.

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.

Prior to leading the Boston Fed, Collins was provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan. In that role, she was the chief academic and budget officer, responsible for overseeing all academic programming and budget planning. She was also the Edward M. Gramlich Collegiate Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics. Collins came to Michigan in 2007, serving for a decade as the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of the university's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

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 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. Among other affiliations, she also served as a Board member for the Peterson Institute of International Economics, and the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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.

Susan M. Collins is a naturalized U.S. citizen of Jamaican descent, born in Scotland and raised in New York City. She is married to Dr. Donald R. Vereen, Jr., MD, MPH; and they have two adult children.