Keynote Speakers

Beth Anne Wilson, 2025 Keynote Speaker

Beth Anne Wilson is the director of the International Finance Division of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. In this role, she oversees the division’s work monitoring and forecasting the global economy, analyzing key international issues such as movements in global financial and commodity markets and supporting the Federal Reserve’s engagement with foreign central banks and international organizations such as the Group of Seven, Group of Twenty and Bank for International Settlements. In this capacity, she has served as the Board’s representative on the BIS Markets Committee, Committee on the Global Financial System and the Central Bank Deputy for the G7 and G20. She is also responsible for briefing the Federal Open Market Committee on global economic and financial developments. Wilson started at the Board as an economist in the Division of Research and Statistics and joined the Division of International Finance in 1998. She also served as a senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisers and as a visiting professor at Georgetown University. She was presented with the Board’s Special Achievement Award in 2010 for her work leading the Board’s monitoring of the euro-area crisis. She has an active research agenda, most recently focused on the economic implications of uncertainty. Wilson received her B.A. in economics and history from the University of California at Berkeley and her Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.