I am currently a Senior Affiliated Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a member of the Shadow Open Market Committee. and a Fellow of the Global Interdependence Center College of Central Bankers. I worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond from 1989 to 2017, where I was President from 2004 to 2017. From 2018 to 2022 I was Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business in Richmond, VA. From 1984 to 1989 I taught at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. Early in my career I worked at Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates.
You can find my academic and Federal Reserve publications from before 2017 at this Richmond Fed web page. Speeches and testimony on central bank policy issues (as opposed to the current economic outlook) can be found here under the "At the Fed" tab. Post-2017 work can be found at the tabs for "Recent Appearances" and "Recent Writings". All the speeches I gave as Richmond Fed President are listed at this Richmond Fed web page. This IDEAS/RePEc page lists all my publications.
My biography on the Federal Reserve History web site is here, and the Wikipedia page about me is here. A bio is here.
I am currently associated with the following organizations:
Shadow Open Market Committee, Member
Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Senior Affiliated Scholar
Global Interdependence Center College of Central Bankers, Fellow
Richmond Jewish Foundation, Board of Directors
Council for Economic Education, Board of Directors
Virginia Council on Economic Education, Board of Directors
World Affairs Council of Greater Richmond, Board of Directors
University of Richmond, Trustee Emeritus
I am a proud husband, father and now grandfather. My wife, Lisa Halberstadt, teaches Jewish Meditation, Mindful Self Compassion and Wise Aging. My son, Benjamin Lacker, is a machine learning engineer at Spotify. My son, Daniel Lacker, is an associate professor at Columbia University in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. His wife, Maria Abascal, is an assistant professor at New York University in Sociology.
Amateur sports car racing has been my hobby; there are some related links here.