
Anna Paulson
- President, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, 2025 –
Anna Paulson took office on July 1, 2025, as the 12th president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. In this role, Paulson serves on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which formulates the nation’s monetary policy, and oversees all Bank activities, including economic research, banking supervision, community outreach, and a wide range of payment and financial services.
Paulson brings more than 20 years of experience as a leader in policy analysis and research related to financial stability and monetary policy. Before taking office at the Philadelphia Fed, Paulson was executive vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, where she served as senior advisor to the Chicago Fed’s president and CEO and oversaw the department that provides analytic support for monetary policymaking and conducts research on topics including banking and financial markets, macroeconomics, microeconomics, and the regional economy. She also oversaw the Bank’s public affairs, community development, and leadership within the Chicago Fed’s Detroit branch.
Paulson is an expert on financial markets and institutions, with particular expertise in the insurance industry. Her research investigates how households and firms adapt to incomplete financial markets and how household financial decision-making is influenced by exposure to institutions and economic events, including financial crises. Paulson’s research has been published in leading scholarly journals, including the Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Review of Financial Studies.
Before joining the Chicago Fed as an economist in 2001, Paulson served as an assistant professor of finance at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University. She is a past board member of the Western Economic Association International and the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.
Paulson has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from Carleton College.
Learn more about President Paulson’s research and work at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Written by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and published July 1, 2025. See disclaimer and update policy.