Austan D. Goolsbee
| Austan D. Goolsbee | |
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| Occupation | President |
|---|---|
| Employer | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago |
| Location | Chicago, IL |
| @Austan_Goolsbee | |
Austan D. Goolsbee is an American economist and the current president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He served as a member and then chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2009 through 2011 and was a member of President Barack Obama's cabinet.[1] He also headed up the staff of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
He is also an award-winning journalist and an academic.
Background[edit]
Before becoming president of the Chicago Fed in January 2023, Goolsbee served as the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, whose faculty he joined in 1995. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow.[2]
He has also served on the Board of Education for the City of Chicago, the Economic Advisory Panel to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Panel of Economic Advisers to the Congressional Budget Office, the U.S. Census Advisory Committee, the Digital Economy Board of Advisors to the Commerce Department, and the External Advisory Group on Digital Technology for the International Monetary Fund.[3]
Goolsbee has been an economics columnist for The New York Times and Slate. He has been a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at the American Bar Foundation. He was also a special consultant for Internet policy for the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and a senior economist for the Progressive Policy Institute and the Democratic Leadership Council.
His most cited paper, co-written with Jeffrey Brown, examines the value of the economic competition created by the Internet.[4]
Goolsbee was selected as one of Financial Times' six "Gurus of the Future"/Best under 40 (2005), named one of the Young Global Leaders at the 2005 World Economic Forum, and one of the 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow at the 2002 World Economic Forum.[5]
Education[edit]
Goolsbee graduated from Milton Academy and received both his B.A. summa cum laude and M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1991 and went on to receive his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2000-02) and Fulbright Scholar (2006-07).
References[edit]
- ↑ Goolsbee to head Obama's economics panel. UPI.
- ↑ Austan D. Goolsbee. University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.
- ↑ Austan Goolsbee. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
- ↑ Sizing Up Obama’s Nominee as Chief Economist. The New York Times.
- ↑ Staff Director and Chief Economist Austan Goolsbee. White House.