Frederic Mishkin has been a full professor at Columbia Business School since 1983. He held the A. Barton Hepburn Professorship of Economics from 1991 to 1999, when he was appointed Alfred Lerner Professor of Banking and Financial Institutions at the Graduate School of Business. He is an expert on monetary policy and its impact on financial markets and the aggregate economy.

From 1994 to 1997, Dr. Mishkin was Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and an Associate Economist of the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve System. From 1997 to 2006, he was an academic consultant to and served on the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Dr. Mishkin was also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (1980-2006) and a senior fellow at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Center for Banking Research (2003-06).

Dr. Mishkin has been a consultant to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund, as well as to numerous central banks throughout the world. He was also a member of the International Advisory Board to the Financial Supervisory Service of South Korea and an advisor to the Institute for Monetary and Economic Research at the Bank of Korea.

Dr. Mishkin is author of “The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets” (2007), the number one selling textbook in its field. In addition he is the author of more than fifteen other books. He was the editor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Economic Policy Review and later served on that journal’s editorial board.

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"A regular financial commentator on CNBC, Frederic Mishkin explores how today's volatile markets are influenced, and provides a timely insiders view on the economy and where it is headed. He draws upon his considerable expertise at the Federal Reserve Bank to advise companies on how to deal successfully with the current global financial economy."