Dennis Lockhart — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Served as the 14th President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta from March 2007 to February 2017, participating in the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC).
Holds a distinguished professor-of-the-practice position in the Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech.
Chairs the Advisory Committee at Emory Brain Health Center and is a Member of the Advisory Committee at Emory Center for Ethics.
Serves on the Board of Directors for American Virtual Cloud Technologies, The Beneficient Company Group, and PrimeRevenue.
Held various international and domestic positions with Citicorp/Citibank from 1971 to 1988, including head of the Latin American debt-to-equity swap investment program.
Was managing partner at Zephyr Management, a private equity firm, and chairman of the Small Enterprise Assistance Funds, a sponsor of emerging markets venture capital/private equity funds.
Earned an M.A. in International Economics and U.S. Foreign Policy from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Stanford University.

Biography

Dennis Lockhart is an American economist with a career spanning central banking, private finance, and academia. He served as the 14th President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta from March 1, 2007, through February 28, 2017. In this role, Lockhart was a member of the Federal Reserve’s chief monetary policy body, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC).