Beth M. Hammack
President and Chief Executive Officer
Beth M. Hammack is the president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, one of 12 regional Reserve Banks in the Federal Reserve System. She began her term on August 21, 2024. In this capacity, she participates in the formulation of US monetary policy and oversees 1,100 employees in the Bank’s Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh offices who conduct economic research, supervise banking institutions, and provide payment services to commercial banks and the US government.
View the president's calendar, which provides a retrospective listing of engagements.
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President’s calendar
This calendar provides a retrospective listing of President Beth Hammack’s engagements beginning Jan. 1, 2025. It is updated quarterly with events from the prior quarter.
Dedicated to serving the communities of the Fourth Federal Reserve District
President Hammack engages with a wide variety of people in Ohio, western Pennsylvania, eastern Kentucky, and the northern panhandle of West Virginia to gather perspectives on the economy. She represents these insights in national conversations about monetary policy and related work with other Federal Reserve officials. President Hammack shares her views on economic and policy issues through speeches, media interviews and other events. Visit the Office of the President section for more information.
Engagements listed in President Hammack’s calendar
- Roundtables, meetings, and industry/community tours refer to listening sessions where the goal is to gather information and ask clarifying questions.
- Moderated conversations, remarks, speeches and panels refer to opportunities to communicate publicly about a given topic and often include prepared remarks that are published on the Cleveland Fed’s website.
- Receptions refer to informal meet-and-greets that provide opportunities to strengthen the Cleveland Fed’s regional partnerships and generally do not include prepared remarks.
- Conferences refer to organized events that President Hammack attends with the purpose of listening and often do not include prepared remarks.
- The following are examples of information not included: Meetings related to bank supervision, FOMC preparation activities, routine staff meetings or meetings with candidates for employment, director positions or advisory council roles with the Cleveland Fed, Bank personnel activities, social or personal appointments. (The listing does not include internal Reserve Bank meetings, except for Federal Open Market Committee meetings, and it does not include impromptu phone calls made or received.)
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January 2025
- Meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee Meeting (FOMC), Washington DC
- Meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Board of Directors, Cleveland, Ohio
- Meeting of the Greater Cleveland Partnership Board, Cleveland, Ohio
- Meeting with Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH), Washington DC
- Media interview with The Wall Street Journal, Cleveland, Ohio
- Reception with Pay 4th Payments Roundtable attendees, Cleveland, Ohio
- Pay 4th Payments Roundtable, Cleveland, Ohio
- Tour of MAGNET, Cleveland, Ohio
February 2025
- Conference attendance at the Economic Insights Summit at Baldwin-Wallace University, Berea, Ohio
- Media interview with Reuters, New York City
- Meeting with Case Western Reserve University to discuss community and economic development issues, Cleveland, Ohio
- Meeting with Central Bank to discuss community and economic conditions, Lexington, Kentucky
- Meeting of the Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council (CDIAC), Cleveland, Ohio
- Meeting with former Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Cleveland, Ohio
- Meeting of the Greater Cleveland Partnership, Cleveland, Ohio
- Meeting of the Northeast Ohio Business Advisory Council (BAC), Cleveland, Ohio
- Reception with local business and community leaders at a Women’s Leadership Event, Cleveland, Ohio
- Roundtable with workforce development leaders to discuss community and economic development issues, Lexington, Kentucky
- Speech at the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics Economic Outlook Conference, Lexington, Kentucky
- Speech at the Columbia University/Bank Policy Institute: 2025 Bank Regulation Research Conference, New York City
March 2025
- Community tour with business and community leaders in Akron, Ohio
- Roundtable discussion with business and community leaders, co-facilitated with the Greater Akron Chamber
- Tour of Lighter Than Air facility
- Community tour of Cleveland Cavaliers Riverfront Development Project, Cleveland, Ohio
- Community tour and discussion with leaders from Lorain County Community College, Lorain, Ohio
- Community tour with business and community leaders in Toledo, Bowling Green, Wallbridge, Ohio
- Tour of downtown Toledo and discussion on downtown redevelopment
- Roundtable with Northwest Ohio Business Advisory Council, community and education leaders, co-facilitated with the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce
- Visit and lunch at the Original Tony Packo’s
- Meeting and Q&A session with student ambassadors at Bowling Green State University, Schmidthorst College of Business
- Tour of First Solar manufacturing plant
- Conference attendance at the 2025 US Monetary Policy Forum, New York City
- Media interview with The Toledo Blade
- Meeting of the Greater Cleveland Partnership Board of Directors, Cleveland, Ohio
- Meeting with the Greater Cleveland Foodbank to discuss community and economic development issues, Cleveland, Ohio
- Meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), Washington DC
- Meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Board of Directors, Cleveland, Ohio
- Meeting of the University Hospitals Board of Directors, Cleveland, Ohio
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