St. Louis Fed President to Speak at Little Rock Chamber

St. Louis Fed President James Bullard will be speaking at the Little Rock Regional Chamber on Thursday, July 7 for the chamber’s Power Up Little Rock luncheon being held at the Clinton Presidential Library. A virtual and in-person event, with a presentation and audience question and answer session, Bullard will be speaking about current trends concerning the U.S. economy and monetary policy.

Power Up Little Rock is hosted by the chamber and presented by Arvest Bank. This quarterly series highlights important economic development trends, issues and developments within the region and the state.

James (“Jim”) Bullard is the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. In that role, he is a participant on the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which meets regularly to set the direction of U.S. monetary policy. He also oversees the Federal Reserve’s Eighth District, including activities at the St. Louis headquarters and its branches in Little Rock, Ark., Louisville, Ky., and Memphis, Tenn.

A noted economist and policymaker, Bullard makes Fed transparency and dialogue a priority on the international and national stage as well as on Main Street. He serves on the board of directors of Concordance Academy of Leadership, and he is a past board chair of the United Way U.S.A. He is an executive committee member of the Greater St. Louis Inc.’s chair’s council. In addition, Bullard is co-editor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, a member of the editorial advisory board of the National Institute Economic Review and a member of the Central Bank Research Association’s senior council.

He is an honorary professor of economics at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also sits on the advisory council of the economics department and the advisory board of the Center for Dynamic Economics. A native of Forest Lake, Minn., Bullard received his doctorate in economics from Indiana University in Bloomington.