Auburn Chamber of Commerce | 55th Annual Business Meeting

This year is the Auburn Chamber of Commerce 55th Annual Business Meeting. We will give an overview of the Chamber's accomplishments, and what we aim to accomplish in 2017. 

We are thrilled to have Mr. Jeffrey Fuhrer as our guest speaker!

Jeffrey (Jeff) Fuhrer is Executive Vice President and Senior Policy Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and is an advisor to the Bank’s regional and community outreach department and is responsible for the Bank’s diversity and inclusion functions. He has been an associate economist of the Federal Open Market Committee, and regularly attends this key U.S. policymaking meeting with the Bank’s president. In June 1992 he joined the Bank’s research department as an assistant vice president and economist, and from 1995–2001 headed its Open Economy Macro/International section. In 2000 Fuhrer was named senior vice president and monetary policy advisor, in 2001 he became director of research, and in 2006 he was named executive vice president. Fuhrer began his career at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, first as a research assistant, and then in 1985 returned as a senior economist after earning his doctorate. He has been active in economic research for more than three decades, and has served as an associate editor for the American Economic Review.

Fuhrer has published numerous scholarly papers on the interactions among
monetary policy, inflation, consumer spending, and asset prices. He has been
married for 36 years and has three grown children. Fuhrer earned an A.B. in
economics with highest honors from Princeton University, and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.