Cleveland Fed names Lisa Barrow head of regional analysis group

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland has named Lisa Barrow vice president of the Bank’s regional analysis group.

In this role, Barrow will lead a team of regional officers, policy economists, and analysts to ensure that information gathered through external engagement with directors, advisory council members, and others effectively supports the Bank’s monetary policy responsibilities. She will also support the group’s production of research and analysis on issues related to the Fourth District’s economy.

Barrow joins the Bank from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, where she spent 25 years in the Research Department, most recently as a senior economist and economic advisor. During her time at the Chicago Fed, she also served as a senior economist on the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, a visiting lecturer at the Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and a visiting assistant professor at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. She’s been an affiliated researcher at the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research since 2011.

Barrow holds a bachelor’s in economics from Carleton College and a master’s and a PhD in economics from Princeton University. She is the current president of the Midwest Economics Association.