Global Business Forum: The Global Economic Outlook

Since joining the Dallas Fed in 1989, Mr. Wynne has had a variety of responsibilities, including advising the Bank’s president on national and international economic conditions prior to meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee, briefing the Bank’s board of directors and leading the Bank’s international economics group. He has conducted research on the effects of fiscal policy, the drivers of business cycles, inflation measurement, the regional impact of global shocks, the natural rate of interest and the workings of monetary unions, among other topics. His research has appeared in many of the leading peer-reviewed academic journals and Federal Reserve publications. He co-edited the volume The Federal Reserve’s Role in the Global Economy: A Historical Perspective with Michael D. Bordo, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016.

Wynne has taught at University College Dublin, the University of Rochester, Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Dallas.

He is a member of the American Economic Association, the European Economic Association, the Econometric Society, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations.

He earned first-class-honors BA and MA degrees from the National University of Ireland–University College, Dublin, and holds MA and PhD degrees in economics from the University of Rochester.