CHICAGO - (September 2, 2021) The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago has announced that Cindy Hull joined the Financial Markets Group as a policy advisor. The appointment was effective September first.
Hull brings more than 15 years of experience in trading, portfolio management, and operational readiness planning. She will report to Alessandro Cocco, vice president and head of the Financial Markets Group (FMG).
Hull’s work will be key to pursuing FMG’s strategic mission to analyze public policy issues in financial markets from multiple perspectives, communicate findings to policymakers, regulators, industry leaders and the public, and contribute to the Federal Reserve’s mission of fostering the stability, integrity, and efficiency of the nation’s monetary, financial, and payment systems.
Hull joins FMG from the Markets Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where she had a successful career spanning more than 15 years. During that time, Hull progressed from a trader analyst to an officer of the bank and had a range of responsibilities.
As part of a team that manages the Fed and U.S. Treasury holdings of foreign currency reserves, Hull led trading operations and developed a new governance framework for this portfolio of assets. In addition, Hull led operational readiness initiatives to improve the capacity for the Markets Group to implement a wide-ranging set of existing and potential policy directives. Most recently, Hull played an instrumental leadership role in the Fed’s agency mortgage-backed securities purchase program.
Hull received a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University.
About the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago is one of 12 regional Reserve Banks that, along with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., make up the nation’s central bank. The Chicago Reserve Bank serves the Seventh Federal Reserve District, which encompasses the northern portions of Illinois and Indiana, southern Wisconsin, the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, and the state of Iowa. In addition to participation in the formulation of monetary policy, each Reserve Bank supervises member banks and bank holding companies, provides financial services to depository institutions and the U.S. government, and monitors economic conditions in its District.
