Lael Brainard

Lael Brainard is Distinguished Fellow at the Georgetown University Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy. She previously served as Director of the National Economic Council, Vice Chair and Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, Undersecretary of the Treasury, and G7 Sherpa. Lael also served as Chair of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) Standing Committee on Assessing Vulnerabilities and of OECD Working Party 3. She has been involved in U.S. monetary, fiscal, and trade policymaking, as well as the resolution of several financial crises. She was Assistant and Associate Professor of Applied Economics at MIT Sloan School. Lael founded the Brookings Global Economy and Development program and started her career at McKinsey and Company. She received a doctorate in economics from Harvard and was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship