Boston Fed President & CEO Susan M. Collins returns to the Ford School

Join Boston Fed President & CEO Susan M. Collins, our former Ford School dean, for a conversation about monetary policy, the breadth of the Federal Reserve's work, and her career path.

Speaker Bio:

Susan M. Collins is president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, which is part of the U.S. central bank. She is a participant on the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets U.S. monetary policy. Since taking office in July 2022, Collins oversees all the Boston Fed’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. She began her career on the economics department faculty at Harvard University and then spent many years dividing her time as a professor of economics at Georgetown University and a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution.

Prior to leading the Boston Fed, Collins spent 15 years at the University of Michigan, most recently serving as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, after serving for a decade as the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of the university’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.  She is the Edward M. Gramlich Collegiate Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics, and remains on an unpaid leave of absence from the university.

Faculty Expert

John Leahy

Allen Sinai Professor of Macroeconomics

• Susan M. Collins
• Boston Fed
• Federal Reserve Bank
• monetary policy
• John Leahy