George Arthur Akerlof is an American economist and a university professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Koshland Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California,Berkeley. Akerlof was awarded the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences,jointly with Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz,"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information."
Raghuram Govind Rajan is an Indian economist and the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. Between 2003 and 2006 he was Chief Economist and director of research at the International Monetary Fund. From September 2013 through September 2016 he was the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. In 2015,during his tenure at the RBI,he became the Vice-Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements.
Frederic Stanley "Rick" Mishkin is an American economist and Alfred Lerner professor of Banking and Financial Institutions at the Graduate School of Business,Columbia University. He was a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 2006 to 2008.
Carl Eugene Walsh,is an American economist. He has been an economics professor at the University of California,Santa Cruz (UCSC) since 1987,and retired in 2020 as Distinguished Professor of Economics. He twice served as chair of the Economics Department at the university as well as Vice Provost for Silicon Valley Initiatives (2005-2007) and Associate Vice Chancellor for Planning and Programs (1995-1995) at UCSC. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Banks of Kansas City (1982-1983),Philadelphia (1984-1985) and San Francisco (1987-2000).
Malcolm D. Knight is a Canadian economist,policymaker and banker. He is currently Visiting Professor of Finance at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation. From 2008 to 2012,Knight was Vice Chairman of Deutsche Bank Group where he was responsible for developing and coordinating the bank's global approach to issues in financial regulation,supervision,and financial stability. He served as general manager of the Bank for International Settlements from 2003 to 2008 and as Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada (1999-2003),after holding senior positions at the International Monetary Fund (1975-1999).
Philip Richard Lane is an Irish economist who has been serving as a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank since 2019 and concurrently as ECB chief economist. He previously served as Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland from 2015 to 2019. As ECB Chief Economist,Lane is seen by many as providing an academic counterweight to the traditional political abilities of ECB President,Christine Lagarde.
Anthony Saunders is the John M. Schiff Professor of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business and is currently on the Executive Committee of the Salomon Center of the Study of Financial Institutions.
Carlos A. Végh is a Uruguayan academic economist who,since 2013,is the Fred H. Sanderson Professor of International Economics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS),and holds a joint appointment with Johns Hopkins' Department of Economics. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1998. He was the World Bank's chief economist for Latin America and the Caribbean from February 1,2017 to June 30,2019,while on leave from Johns Hopkins. He was previously a professor of economics and vice-chair of undergraduate studies at UCLA (1996-2005) and professor of economics at the University of Maryland (2005-2013). His research work on monetary and fiscal policy in emerging and developing countries has been highly influential in both academic and policy circles. In particular,his work on fiscal procyclicality in emerging markets has been instrumental in generating a copious literature on the subject,which has influenced the adoption of fiscal rules in many emerging markets.
Warren L. Coats,Jr.,is an economist specializing in monetary policy. He retired from the International Monetary Fund in May 2003 to join the board of directors of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority. He is president of Economic Consulting,providing technical assistance to central banks,and until recently was adviser to the central banks of Afghanistan and Kazakhstan.
Erik Berglöf is a Swedish economist,currently the Chief Economist of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB),the Beijing-based multilateral development bank established in 2016 with a mission to improve social and economic outcomes in Asia. In March 2019 Erik Berglöf was appointed to the European Council's High Level Group of Wise Persons on the European financial architecture for development where Berglöf and eight other economists will suggest changes to the EU's development finance structure. In 2017–2018 Erik Berglöf served on the secretariat of the G20 Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance and on the Governing Board of the Institute for New Economic Thinking in New York.
Stephen G Cecchetti is an American economist who has been the Barbara and Richard M Rosenberg Professor of Global Finance at Brandeis International Business School. His principal fields of interest are macroeconomics,monetary economics,financial economics,monetary policy,central banking,and the supply of money.
Reint E. Gropp is a German economist,the president of the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) as well as professor of economics at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. His fields of research cover financial economics,macroeconomics,corporate finance as well as money and banking.
David I. Meiselman was an American economist. Among his contributions to the field of economics are his work on the term structure of interest rates,the foundation today of the implementation of monetary policy by major central banks,and his work with Milton Friedman on the impact of monetary policy on the performance of the economy and inflation.
Marvin Seth Goodfriend was an American economist. He held the Allan H. Meltzer Professorship in economics at Carnegie Mellon University;he was previously the director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Following his 2017 nomination to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors,the White House decided to forgo renominating Goodfriend at the beginning of the new term.
Michael David Bordo is a Canadian and American economist,currently Board of Governors Professor of Economics and Distinguished Professor of Economics at Rutgers University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research as well as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is the third most influential economic historian worldwide according to the RePEc/IDEAS rankings. He was a student of Milton Friedman and has co-authored numerous books and articles with Anna Schwartz.
Lisa DeNell Cook is an American economist who has served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since May 23,2022. She is the first African American woman and first woman of color to sit on the Board. Before her appointment to the Federal Reserve,she was elected to the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Amir Yaron is an Israeli-American economist and the current Governor of the Bank of Israel. Prior to serving as Governor,Yaron served as Professor of Banking and Finance at the Wharton School,University of Pennsylvania.
Krishnamurthy Venkata Subramanian is an Indian economist who served as the 17th Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India. Subramanian is a leading expert on economic policy,banking and corporate governance,who was the youngest Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India,serving from 2018 to 2021. He has been appointed to the post of India's Executive Director at the IMF,with effect from November 1,2022.
Laurence M. Ball is an American economist,Professor and Chairman of the Economics Department at the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,Maryland. He is a specialist in the field of macroeconomics.
