Susan M. Collins

President and CEO

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

SUSAN M. COLLINS became president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on July 1, 2022. In this role, she serves on the U.S. Federal Open Market Committee. As CEO, Ms. Collins oversees all Bank activities, including economic research; banking supervision and financial stability; community economic development; and a wide range of payments, technology, and finance initiatives.

Prior to leading the Boston Fed, Ms. Collins was provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan. In that role, she was the chief academic and budget officer, responsible for overseeing all academic programming and budget planning.  When she stepped down as provost, Michigan’s Board of Regents awarded her a Regents’ Citation of Honor for her dedication and service to the university. Ms. Collins was also the Edward M. Gramlich Collegiate Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics. Ms. Collins came to Michigan in 2007, serving for a decade as dean of the university’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

Ms. Collins previously taught on the economics department faculties at Harvard University (1984-1992) and Georgetown University (1992-2007) and was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (1992-2007).  Her published research has focused on determinants of economic growth, implications of global integration for U.S. labor markets, persistent macroeconomic imbalances, and countries’ economic transformations. She earned a Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after graduating from Harvard University summa cum laude, with a B.A. in economics.