Susan M. Collins is president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, which is part of the U.S. central bank. She is a participant on the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets U.S. monetary policy. Collins oversees all of the bank’s activities – including economic research and analysis; banking supervision and financial stability efforts; community economic development activities; and a wide range of payments, technology, and finance initiatives. Collins is a widely published international macroeconomist with a lifelong interest in policy and its impact on living standards. She has served as a provost, dean, professor, research scholar, and board member at a variety of universities and organizations, including the University of Michigan, the Brookings Institution, Georgetown and Harvard Universities. Collins earned her doctorate in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her undergraduate degree at Harvard.