Marvin Goodfriend

Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Gailliot Center for Public Policy
Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

Marvin Goodfriend is Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Gailliot Center for Public Policy, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. He was Director of Research and Senior Vice President and Policy Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, regularly attending meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1993-2005). Dr. Goodfriend served as a senior staff economist for the Council of Economic Advisors at the While House (1984-85) and was a visiting economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1983-84). He was a visiting professor of business economics at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago (1988-90). He has been a visiting scholar at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Institute for International Economic Studies at the University of Stockholm, the International Monetary Fund, and the Swiss National Bank. Dr. Goodfriend serves on editorial boards of the Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, and the International Journal of Central Banking. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. [Dr. Goodfriend's most recent publication is "How the World Achieved Consensus on Monetary Policy," in the Fall 2007 Journal of Economic Perspectives of the American Economic Association