
Sean D. Campbell is the Chief Economist, Head of Policy Research. He joined the Forum in April 2018.
Prior to joining the Forum, Dr. Campbell served as an Associate Director in the Federal Reserve Board’s Division of Supervision and Regulation and as a Deputy Associate Director in the Division of Research and Statistics. Dr. Campbell joined the Federal Reserve Board staff as a staff economist in June 2004. While at the Board, Dr. Campbell contributed to the development and design of an array of regulatory policy initiatives regarding stress testing, capital, derivative markets, and a number of Dodd-Frank Act reforms.
Dr. Campbell’s research focuses on financial risk management and the intersection between the macroeconomy and financial markets. Dr. Campbell’s research has been published in a number of leading, peer-reviewed, academic journals including the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.
Prior to joining the staff of the Federal Reserve Board, Dr. Campbell was an assistant professor of economics at Brown University. Dr. Campbell has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in economics from the University of Massachusetts, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
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