Keynote Speaker

Jonathan Heathcote is a Monetary Advisor in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Between 2006 and 2008 he was an economist in the International Finance Division of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. From 2002 to 2008 he was an assistant and then associate professor at Georgetown University. Jonathan has also taught at the Stockholm School of Economics and Duke University, and the Stern School of Business, New York University. Jonathan received a B.A. in philosophy, politics, and economics from Keble College, Oxford University, in 1993, and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998. He is a CEPR Fellow and his work has appeared in several prestigious publications, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economic Studies. He is a  Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics, and he has been an editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics.