**Please note a change to our regular programming
Fireside Chat with
Susan M. Collins
President and CEO
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
and Moderated by:
Juhi Dhawan, PhD
Senior Managing Director, Global Macroanalyst
Wellington Management
**AGENDA
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Registration Opens on the 1st Floor outside of the Morris Auditorium. Seating will be reserved for BEC members in the middle section of the auditorium. FRBB and BEC members are welcome to attend
11:30 AM - 12:27 PM: Opening Remarks from President Collins and a Moderated Q&A with President Collins & Juhi Dhawan in the Morris Auditorium
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch Service on the 4th Floor in the Paul Connolly Center for registered BEC Members
Event Venue Location: 600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Morris Auditorium (1st Floor) with lunch service to follow in the Paul Connolly Center (4th Floor)
BIO
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 Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago where she served as a director for nine years.
Earlier in her career Susan spent 16 years living in Massachusetts – as an assistant then associate professor at Harvard University, earning a Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and as an undergraduate at Harvard.

Please note that for security reasons, you will be asked to present a government issued photo identification to gain entrance into the Federal Reserve Bank.