Susan M. Collins

Susan M. Collins (born 1959/1960) is an American economist who has served as the 14th president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston since July 1, 2022. She is the first African American woman and first woman of color to lead any of the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks. Collins previously served as the 16th provost and executive vice president for academic affairs of the University of Michigan from 2020 to 2022. Early life and education Collins is a naturalized U.S. citizen of Jamaican descent, born in Scotland, United Kingdom and raised in New York City. She graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with a bachelor's in economics in 1980 and earned her PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1984. Career Collins has held various teaching positions at Harvard University, Georgetown University, and the University of Michigan. She also served on the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 to 1990 and was a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund in 2001. She was a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution from 2007 to 2017 and became a nonresident senior fellow after her move to Michigan.