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Kristin Forbes is the\u00a0Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Global Economics<\/em>\u00a0at MIT\u2019s Sloan School of Management.<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Kristin Forbes is the\u00a0Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Global Economics<\/em>\u00a0at MIT\u2019s Sloan School of Management.<\/p>\n<\/div>\t

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Kristin Forbes is the\u00a0Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Global Economics<\/em>\u00a0at MIT\u2019s Sloan School of Management. She has regularly rotated between academia and senior policy positions. From 2014-2017 she was an external member of the Monetary Policy Committee for the Bank of England and from 2003 to 2005 she served as a member of the White House\u2019s Council of Economic Advisers. From 2001-2002 Forbes was a deputy assistant secretary in the U.S. Treasury Department and over 2009-2014 she was a member of the Governor\u2019s Council of Economic Advisers for the State of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

In 2019, Forbes was named an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. She is currently the convener of the Bellagio Group, a member of the NBER\u2019s Business Cycle Dating Committee, a research associate at the NBER and CEPR, and a member of the US Monetary Policy Forum and Council on Foreign Relations. She also serves in a number of advisory positions, such as for the Bank for International Settlements and the Managing Director for the International Monetary Fund.<\/p>\n

Forbes\u2019 academic research addresses policy-related questions in international macroeconomics, including monetary policy, macroprudential tools, capital flows, exchange rates, inflation, and contagion. She has won numerous teaching awards and teaches one of the most popular classes at MIT's Sloan School. Before joining MIT, Forbes worked at the World Bank and Morgan Stanley. She received her PhD in Economics from MIT and graduated\u00a0summa cum laude<\/em>\u00a0(with highest honors) from Williams College.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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