Susan Collins, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston will deliver the Razin Policy Lecture on April 10, 2025.  

The Georgetown Center for Economic Research and the GU Economics Department are pleased to announce Susan Collins, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston will deliver the 2025 Razin Lecture. The keynote lecture will take place on Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 4:00 p.m. in the Copley Formal Lounge at Georgetown University.

Susan M. Collins is president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, which is part of the U.S. central bank. She is a participant on the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets U.S. monetary policy. Since taking office in July 2022, Collins oversees all of the bank’s activities – including economic research and analysis; banking supervision and financial stability efforts; community economic development activities; and a wide range of payments, technology, and finance initiatives.

Collins is an international macroeconomist with a lifelong interest in policy and its impact on living standards. She has published widely and served as a provost, dean, professor, research scholar, and board member at a variety of universities and organizations, including the University of Michigan, the Brookings Institution, Georgetown and Harvard Universities. Collins earned her Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her undergraduate degree at Harvard.