President & Senior Executives

Daniel G. Sullivan is director of research and senior vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Sullivan serves as chief economist and as a member of the Management Committee. He oversees the Bank's research in monetary policy, banking and financial markets, and regional economics. In addition, he has supervisory responsibility for the Bank's Consumer and Community Affairs unit and the Public Affairs Department. Sullivan also serves as an associate economist on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the group responsible for formulating national monetary policy.

Prior to his appointment as research director, Sullivan served as a senior economist and vice president in the Economic Research Department at the Chicago Fed. He was the team leader of the applied microeconomics team. His research is in the area of labor economics, especially issues related to displaced workers and alternative work arrangements.

Prior to joining the Chicago Fed, Sullivan was an assistant professor of economics at Northwestern University and has also taught at Princeton University. He has published articles in Econometrica, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the Journal of Industrial Economics and the Journal of Political Economy.

Sullivan received a B.A. in mathematics and statistics from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.

He is married with three children.