Mr. Goodfriend is an anual speaker to the Club. He
received a B.S. in mathematics from Union College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in
economics from Brown University before joining the Federal Reserve as an
economist in 1978. As Senior VP and Director of Research from 1993 to
1999, and as Senior VP and Policy Advisor, Mr. Goodfriend has pursued his
own research on monetary policy and served as the principal monetary
policy advisor to President J. Alfred Broaddus, Jr. Mr. Goodfriend was a
visiting economist in the Division of Research and Statistics at the
Federal Reserve Board in 1982-1983. In 1984-85 he took leave from the Bank
to serve as a Senior Staff Economist for the President's Council of
Economic Advisors at the White House. Mr. Goodfriend was a visiting
professor of business economics at the Graduate School of Business of the
University of Chicago in 1988 and 1989. He has also taught at the
Universities of Rochester, Stanford, and Virginia, as well as in short
courses at universities and central banks abroad. Mr. Goodfriend has
published widely on macroeconomics and monetary policy. He serves on the
Advisory Committee of the Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on
Public Policy, as an Associate Editor of two influential banking
journals.
Invocation offered by: Bill Barner
