Loretta J. Mester (born October 24, 1958) is president and CEO of the

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Personal life

Mester was born in

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, Maryland on October 24, 1958. She is married to George Mailath, an economist at the

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Education

Mester has a Bachelor of Arts degree from

Barnard College Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia ...

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in Mathematics and Economics and a Masters and Ph.D. in Economics from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

. She was also a National Science Foundation Fellow at Princeton.

Career

Mester worked at the

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, where she was executive vice president, director of research and chief policy advisor. She began work with the Federal Reserve Bank (in Philadelphia) in 1985 as an economist, thereafter being promoted to senior vice president, director of research, executive vice president. Mester has taught in both the MBA and BA business courses at Wharton and the Ph.D. finance course at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, th ...

. Mester became the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland on June 1, 2014. She was the 11th president and CEO of Cleveland’s Fourth District Federal Reserve Bank. Mester is an adjunct professor of finance at the

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and a fellow at the Wharton Financial Institutions Center. Other positions Mester holds include: director of both the Greater Cleveland Partnership and of the Council for Economic Education, trustee of both the

Cleveland Clinic Cleveland Clinic is a nonprofit American academic medical center based in Cleveland, Ohio. Owned and operated by the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, an Ohio nonprofit corporation established in 1921, it runs a 170-acre (69 ha) campus in Cleveland, ...

and the Musical Arts Association (the Cleveland Orchestra), founding director of the Financial Intermediation Research Society, member of the advisory board of the Financial Intermediation Network of European Studies (FINEST). Her professional memberships include the American Economic Association, the

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, the Econometric Society, and the Financial Management Association International.

Publications

Mester has published articles in various journals on the subjects of central banking, economics and finance. She is co-editor of the '' Journal of Financial Services Research'' and the ''

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''. She is an associate editor of: the ''

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''; ''

Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking The ''Journal of Money, Credit and Banking'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering monetary and financial issues in macroeconomics. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Ohio State University Department of Economics. The editor ...

''; '' Journal of Economics and Business''; ''Research in Banking and Finance''; and '' Journal of Financial Stability''.

Philanthropy

Mester is a director of the Greater Cleveland Partnership, a director of the Council for Economic Education, a trustee of the Cleveland Clinic, a trustee of the Musical Arts Association (Cleveland Orchestra), a founding director of the Financial Intermediation Research Society, and a member of the advisory board of the Financial Intermediation Network of European Studies (FINEST).

References

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