Susan McLaughlin is an Executive Fellow at the Yale School of Management. Prior to her appointment in August 2023, Ms. McLaughlin had a 30-year career at the New York Fed, spanning monetary policy implementation, FX reserves management, financial market structure, payments policy and operations, lender of last resort policy and operations, and sovereign debt management. She spent the first part of her career on the New York Fed’s trading desk, in FX reserves management and then in monetary policy implementation. After a stint as Chief of Staff to the Bank’s First Vice President, Susan became Head of the Discount Window, and was deeply involved in various aspects of the Fed’s policy response to the global financial crisis in 2007-2009. Between 2010 and 2018, she served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Markets Group, leading the Fed’s successful reform of the triparty repo market and representing the New York Fed externally in global official sector senior policy workgroups. In 2019, she became Head of the New York Fed’s Treasury debt issuance operations, and in 2020 she became Head of the emergency lending programs the New York Fed implemented as part of the Federal Reserve’s policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
She holds a BA in East Asian Studies from Oberlin College, MBA and MPP degrees from the University of Michigan, and the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. She also serves as a technical assistance advisor on central banking issues to the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Treasury, and is Chair of the Board of Directors of the West Side Campaign Against Hunger in New York City.
MBA, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
MPP, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
AB, Oberlin College
