2025 Midwest Economic Forecast Forum

Wednesday, January 15 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. CST

Virtual via Zoom

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DATE/TIME

Wednesday, January 15, 2025 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 CST

REGISTRATION FEE

Registration is available individually or as a group. Take advantage of our group pricing to invite additional staff, business customers, and other community leaders to join you!

Individual Registration - $29/connection
Group Registration (up to 10 virtual connections) - $129/group

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Prepare for 2025 by joining an economic discussion with Federal Reserve Bank President Austan Goolsbee. Time will be allowed for open Q&A during this virtual event. Bankers are encouraged to invite their business clients and local community leaders to tune in to these economic insights together. Individuals or group registration rates are available.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

President Austan Goolsbee

Austan D. Goolsbee is president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In this capacity, he serves on the Federal Open Market Committee—the Federal Reserve System’s monetary policymaking body—and leads the Chicago Fed, which conducts research and monitors local economic conditions in support of the formulation of monetary policy, supervises and regulates banking organizations, and provides financial services to banks and similar institutions, as well as to the U.S. government.

Prior to becoming president of the Chicago Fed in January 2023, Goolsbee served as the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business where he first joined the faculty in 1995. He is known for his empirical research on many different industries and on economic policy. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow.

Goolsbee served as a member and then chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2009 through 2011 and was a member of the President’s cabinet. He has also served on the Board of Education for the City of Chicago, the Economic Advisory Panel to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Panel of Economic Advisers to the Congressional Budget Office, the U.S. Census Advisory Committee, the Digital Economy Board of Advisors to the Commerce Department, and the External Advisory Group on Digital Technology for the International Monetary Fund.

Goolsbee has a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BA and MA in economics from Yale University. He is married and has three children.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Community leaders with an interest in the economic and business environment will find value in hearing from our distinguished guest speaker. Bankers are encouraged to invite their business customers to attend as a part of the bank's group of attendees. Group pricing is also available. 

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