Simon Potter
Simon Potter has held various senior roles at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, most recently as its Executive Vice President and Head of Markets Group and System Open Market Account. He led the implementation of domestic open market and foreign exchange trading operations on behalf of the Federal Open Market Committee. Potter also oversaw the execution of fiscal agent support for the US Treasury, the provision of account services to foreign and international monetary authorities as well as the administration and production of reference interest rates for US money markets.
Simon Potter Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Nonresident Senior Fellow
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Executive Vice President and Head of Markets Group
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Director of Economic Research and Co-Head of the Research and Statistics Group
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Senior Policy Advisor, Financial Stability Oversight Council
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Visiting Lecturer, Department of Economics
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Assistant Professor of Economics
Academic History
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PhD in Economics
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MPhil in Economics
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BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics
- Potter played an integral role in the Federal Reserve’s financial stability efforts, including contributing to the design of the 2009 US bank stress tests.
- His research focus is on central bank operations, monetary policy, digital currencies, reference rates, the role of the dollar, and economic forecasting.
- He has taught at the University of California Los Angeles, Johns Hopkins University, New York University, and Princeton University.
- His academic research focused on applying Bayesian methods to time series models.
- He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.