Daniel G. Sullivan is an executive vice president and executive director of the Chicago Fed’s Economic Mobility Project. His research has been primarily in labor economics, especially issues related to displaced workers and alternative work arrangements.

Sullivan joined the Chicago Fed as a senior economist in 1992, after serving as an assistant professor of economics at Northwestern University. He also taught at Princeton University and is currently a lecturer at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. From 1994 to 2007 Sullivan led the Bank’s applied microeconomics group, from 2007 to 2019 was director of research and from 2019 to 2021 was director of economic outreach.

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