Steven W. Kuehl is the economic development and Wisconsin state director for the community development and policy studies division of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He conducts seminars and workshops, and prepares articles and other written materials dealing with economic development, the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and fair lending laws and banking regulations. Since joining the Bank in 1995, Kuehl has been a commissioned senior examiner on consumer compliance and CRA examinations, as well as manager for consumer complaints, HMDA processing and the advisory service program. Prior to joining the Chicago Fed, he was an examiner for the United States Treasury Department’s Office of Thrift Supervision.

Kuehl also served during Operation Enduring Freedom in the U.S. Army Reserve Judge Advocate General’s Corps as a legal assistance staff officer in the 91st Legal Support Organization at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. He earned the Army Achievement Medal and was honorably discharged in 2007. He is admitted to practice in Illinois and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and past chairman of the Chicago Bar Association’s Consumer Credit Practice Committee. He currently serves on the American Bar Association’s Forum Committee on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law. Kuehl holds a B.S. in finance and economics from Carroll University and a juris doctor from Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Paul Fowler has nearly 30 years of experience working at the interface of business and academia, translating the best of academic research into actionable outcomes for companies in the fiber, pulp, paper, and packaging sectors as well as agriculture, food processing, and plastics industries. In his role as executive director at the Wisconsin Institute for Sustainable Technology at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, Fowler has followed closely and reported on the pulp and paper in Wisconsin and the nation, tracking the changing fortunes and diversification of the industry over the past decade.

Born and raised in Wisconsin Rapids, Kristopher Gasch is board chair at Incourage, a community foundation guided by values of equity, opportunity, and shared stewardship seeking to create a community that works well for all. A graduate of Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin, he also serves on the steering committee for Current (Wisconsin Rapids’ young professionals organization), and the College of Fine Arts & Communication Advisory Committee at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. When not volunteering, Gasch represents the third generation of his family business as director of marketing at Fey Printing Company, and also as director of music and principal organist at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist in Wisconsin Rapids.

Daniel G. Sullivan is an executive vice president and director of economic outreach at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He oversees the Bank’s Community Development and Policy Studies Division and its Public Affairs Department. He also leads the Bank’s outreach council and participates in its monetary policy work.

Sullivan’s research is mainly in the area of labor economics, especially issues related to displaced workers and alternative work arrangements. He has published articles in leading academic journals including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He received a BA in mathematics from the University of Chicago and a PhD in economics from Princeton University.