Patricia Mosser

Patricia C. Mosser is a Senior Research Scholar and Senior Fellow at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and Director of the Initiative on Central Banking and Financial Policy.  Previously, Mosser was head of the Research and Analysis Center at the Office of Financial Research, U.S. Treasury Department.  Mosser spent over 20 years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where she was a senior manager at the Fed’s open market desk overseeing market analysis, monetary policy implementation including many crisis-related facilities, foreign exchange operations, and analysis of financial stability and reform. She previously served as an economist and manager in the New York Fed Research Department and as an assistant professor in the Economics Department at Columbia.  Mosser has written on monetary policy and financial stability topics including crisis policy tools, the monetary transmission mechanism, and financial reform. She serves as a consultant to the Bank of England and was previously a member of the Deputies Committee of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), the Board of the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) and on numerous international central banking and financial policy committees. 

Education

• PhD in Economics, MIT
• MSc with distinction, London School of Economics
• BA in Mathematics and Economics, Wellesley College

Board member of central bank examines the Euro area crisis from Germany’s perspective.