Federal Reserve Bank President of Richmond to Give 2017 H. Parker Willis Lecture
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Lexington, VA (March 22, 2017) - Jeffrey Lacker, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, will deliver the H. Parker Willis Lecture on April 3 at 5 p.m. in the Millhiser Moot Court Room of the Washington and Lee University School of Law.
Lacker will speak on “From ‘Real Bills’ to ‘Too Big to Fail’: H. Parker Willis and the Federal Reserve’s First Century.” His talk is free and open to the public.
Lacker serves on the Federal Open Market Committee, which conducts monetary policy for the Federal Reserve. Previously, he was a senior vice president and the director of research for the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank.
Before joining the Federal Reserve, Lacker was an assistant professor of economics at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University and had previously worked at Wharton Econometrics in Philadelphia. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and a B.A. in economics from Franklin & Marshall College.
Lacker is the author of numerous articles in professional journals on monetary, financial and payment economics.
The event is sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, the Williams School and the Journalism and Mass Communications Department.
The H. Parker Willis Lecture series began in 2002 to honor the first dean of the School of Commerce at W&L, H. Parker Willis (1874-1937). Often called the “Father of the Federal Reserve System,” Willis was economic advisor to Congressman Carter Glass and consultant to the House Banking and Currency Committee in 1912-1913. | | | | | |
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