Robin Prager

Robin A. Prager is a Senior Adviser in the Division of Research and Statistics at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. She joined the Board staff in 1994 as an economist in the Financial Structure Section, and served as Chief of the Financial Structure Section from 2000 to 2007. In her current position, Ms. Prager conducts research and policy analysis on issues surrounding the availability of credit to small businesses and the role of community banks in the U.S. financial system. She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed academic journals. Ms. Prager received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University and a PhD in economics from MIT. Prior to joining the staff of the Federal Reserve Board, Ms. Prager served on the faculty of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University for several years. She has also been a visiting faculty member at Boston University’s School of Management and MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and a Visiting Senior Policy Scholar at Georgetown University’s Center for Business and Public Policy. She currently serves on the board of the Industrial Organization Society and on the editorial boards of the Review of Industrial Organization and Journal of Regulatory Economics.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Bachelor of Arts (BA) Harvard College