Jeff Fuhrer is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He was previously Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where he was also responsible for the bank’s diversity and inclusion functions.
Current positions:
Nonresident Fellow, Brookings Institution.
Board member, United Way of Massachusetts Bay; Board member, Horizons for Homeless Children; Steering committee, MA Economic Conditions and Household Opportunity survey (Mass ECHOS); Steering committee, Cash-Mass basic income group; Member, Greater Boston Wealth Gap Partnership.
Former positions:
Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School of Government (March 2020 through June 2022)
EVP and Chief Strategy Officer, Mass Development (March 2020-March 2021)
EVP and Senior Policy Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (retired March 2020)
EVP and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (2001-2011)
EDUCATION
Harvard University. MA, Ph.D. in Economics.
Princeton University. B.A. Economics, summa cum laude, ranked first in department
