Nitish Ranjan Sinha

Group Manager, Financial Projections Group | Federal Reserve Board

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Senior economist and people manager at the Federal Reserve Board, specializing in financial markets, monetary policy, and NLP/AI, with a strong record of peer-reviewed research, leading forecasting teams, and briefing policymakers and market participants.

Professional Experience

Group Manager, Financial Projections Group

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

2018 - Present

  • Led, hired, and mentored a high-performing team of PhD economists and research assistants.
  • Directed forecasting of key financial variables to inform FOMC monetary policy decisions.
  • Enabled the integration of AI/NLP models into the Board's research toolkit.
  • Briefed Board members and senior staff regularly on U.S. financial conditions.

Special Advisor to the Board

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

2021 - 2024

  • Advised Governor Bowman on economic outlook, interpreting complex staff analysis for policy decisions.
  • Drafted speeches and facilitated technical briefings between the Governor and staff.

Principal Economist / Senior Economist / Economist

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

2013 - 2018

  • Conducted influential research in capital markets, monetary policy, and economic forecasting.

Assistant Professor of Finance

University of Illinois at Chicago

2010 - 2013

  • Developed and taught Python-based finance courses for undergraduate and MBA students.
  • Awarded "Favorite MBA Professor" for teaching excellence.

Areas of Expertise

Domain Knowledge

Forecasting, Monetary Policy, Financial Markets, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing

Technical Skills

Python, R, STATA, SAS, Matlab, LaTeX

Education

Ph.D. in Finance

University of Maryland

P.G.D.M. (MBA)

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

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