John C. Williams is the president and chief executive officer of the New York Fed. In this role, he leads one of the 12 Reserve Banks that, along with the Board of Governors, make up our nation’s central bank, the Federal Reserve System. He serves as the vice chair and a permanent voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the Fed’s monetary policymaking body.
Mr. Williams has dedicated his career to public service. In June 2018, he became the 11th president and CEO of the New York Fed. From 2011 to mid-2018, Mr. Williams was the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Prior to that, he was the executive vice president and director of research for the San Francisco Fed, which he joined in 2002.
Mr. Williams began his career in 1994 as an economist at the Board of Governors. Additionally, he served as a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and as a lecturer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
He has a PhD in economics from Stanford University, a master’s degree from the London School of Economics, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
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