Daniel G. Sullivan is director of research and an executive 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, microeconomics 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 attends meetings of 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 and the team leader of the applied microeconomics group in the economic research department. 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. In addition he is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. He has published articles in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the Journal of Industrial Economics, the Journal of Political Economy and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Sullivan received a B.A. in mathematics and statistics from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.
