Austan Goolsbee

Austan D. Goolsbee is President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Goolsbee previously served as the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he first joined the faculty in 1995. Goolsbee served as a member and then chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2009 through 2011. 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 IMF. He was a Fulbright Scholar and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. Goolsbee has a PhD in economics from MIT and a BA and MA in economics from Yale.