HHEI Spring 2025 Roundtable with Dr. Adriana Kugler
301 S 19th Ave
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
The Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute is pleased to host a presentation by Dr. Adriana D. Kugler, a current member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System. Our spring roundtable event will be moderated by Dr. Juan Pablo Nicolini, a senior research economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
Please join us after the roundtable for a reception and a poster session featuring research conducted by the 2024-25 HHEI Undergraduate Research Assistant program.
Our Speaker
Dr. Adriana D. Kugler took office as a member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System on September 13, 2023, to fill an unexpired term ending January 31, 2026.
Prior to her appointment at the board, Governor Kugler served as the U.S. executive director at the World Bank Group. She is on leave from Georgetown University where she is a professor of public policy and economics and was vice provost for faculty.
Previously, she served as chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor from 2011 to 2013. Governor Kugler was also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and of the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University.
Governor Kugler's other professional appointments include being the elected chair of the Business and Economics Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association. She was also a member of the Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy of the National Academies of Sciences and served on the Technical Advisory Committee of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Governor Kugler received a BA in economics and political science from McGill University and a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Our Moderator
Juan Pablo Nicolini is a senior research economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Prior to joining the Fed in 2009, Juan Pablo taught at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, where he holds a part-time position. In addition, he served as chairman of the economics department (1994–99) and president (2001–9) of Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. In 2006–07, he was Tinker Visiting Professor in the Economics Department and the Center for Latin-American Studies at the University of Chicago. He has also been a visiting researcher at the Banco de Portugal and in the Monetary Stance Division of the European Central Bank.
Juan studied economics at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán in Argentina and earned MA and PhD degrees in economics from the University of Chicago. The focus of his research centers on monetary theory and policy and on bounded rationality in macroeconomics. Juan’s work has appeared in several journals, among them The Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.