Dr. lisa d. cook
member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Marshall Scholar, Class of 1986 (Oxford University)
“The social compact most societies have with their governments is that standards of living will rise continually and that each successive generation will be better off than preceding ones. We are robbing countless people of higher standards of living and well-being when we allow racial discrimination to flourish from generation to generation.”
-dr. LIsa d. cook
Lisa D. Cook is a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since May 23, 2022. She is the first African American woman and the first woman of color to sit on the Board.
She is Professor of Economics and International Relations at Michigan State University. Dr. Cook was recently nominated by President Biden to serve on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. She earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley with fields in macroeconomics and international economics. Dr. Cook previously served as a Senior Economist in the Obama Administration's Council of Economic Advisers, on the faculty of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, Deputy Director for Africa Research at the Center for International Development at Harvard University, and a National Fellow at Stanford University.
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“Racism impoverishes the whole economy” - lisa cook (new york times)
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