On Tuesday, December 19, 2023 at 11:45 AM, please join us at the Buckhead Club for a Leadership LUNCH featuring Raphael Bostic, President & CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He also serves on the Federal Open Market Committee, the monetary policy making body of the Federal Reserve System.
Dr. Raphael W. Bostic took office June 5, 2017, as the 15th president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He is responsible for all the Bank’s activities, including monetary policy, bank supervision and regulation, and payment services.
From 2012 to 2017, Bostic was the Judith and John Bedrosian Chair in Governance and the Public Enterprise at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California (USC).
From 2009 to 2012, Bostic was the assistant secretary for policy development and research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In that role, he was a principal adviser to the secretary on policy and research, helping the secretary and other principal staff make informed decisions on HUD policies and programs, as well as on budget and legislative proposals.
Bostic worked at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 1995 to 2001, first as an economist and then as a senior economist in the monetary and financial studies section, where his work on the Community Reinvestment Act earned him a special achievement award.
He serves on many boards and advisory committees, including the Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Georgia’s Partnership for Inclusive Innovation. He is also a member of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers. He is serving as the 2021–22 chair of the board of directors of the United Way of Greater Atlanta and is the 2022 chair for the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.
Bostic graduated from Harvard University in 1987 with a combined major in economics and psychology. He earned a doctorate in economics from Stanford University in 1995.