William Dudley

William Dudley served as president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2009-2018 and as vice-chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). He played a key role in America’s recovery from the 2008 financial crisis, developing monetary policy and implementing emergency lending facilities to help nurse the U.S. economy back to health. Previously, Dudley served as executive vice president of the Markets Group at the New York Fed, where he also managed the System Open Market Account for the FOMC.

Currently, he is a nonexecutive director at Swiss Bank UBS and a member of Coinbase Global’s advisory council. He chairs the Bretton Woods Committee, co-leads its Digital Finance Project Team, and serves as a Senior Research Scholar at the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies at Princeton University. Dudley is also a member of the Group of Thirty and the Council on Foreign Relations. he is a nonexecutive director at Swiss Bank UBS and a member of Coinbase Global’s advisory council.

Earlier in his career, Dudley spent two decades at Goldman Sachs, becoming a partner and serving as Chief US Economist. He worked on an array of macroeconomic topics, including fiscal policy, health care reform, the thrift crisis, the less-developed-country debt crisis, and social security reform. Before joining Goldman Sachs, he was a regulatory economist and vice president at Morgan Guaranty Trust Company and began his career at the Federal Reserve Board in 1981.

Dudley received his doctorate in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982 and a bachelor’s degree from New College of Florida in 1974. He remains active in civic and policy circles in New Jersey, where he resides.