Dennis P. Lockhart
Dennis P. Lockhart served as the fourteenth President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta from 2007 to 2017, an important time to serve and direct the U.S. economy.
In this role, Mr. Lockhart was responsible for all the Federal Reserve Bank's activities including monetary policy, bank supervision and regulation, and payment services. In addition, he served on the Federal Reserve's chief monetary policy body, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). Within the Federal Reserve System, he chaired the Conference of Presidents for his final two years and earlier chaired the Information Technology Oversight Committee.
Mr. Lockhart's career includes time in the private sector, academia, and government. Before his time at the Federal Reserve, he was a member of the faculty of Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service where he chaired the Master's program's concentrations in global commerce and finance and international business-government relations. He taught courses focused on global business strategy, international finance and investment, project finance, and business-government relations. He also was an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. Simultaneously, he was chairman of the Small Enterprise Assistance Funds, a sponsor of emerging markets venture capital/private equity funds.
Prior to that, he was a managing partner of a boutique private investment firm with activity in Africa and Latin America and president of Heller International Group, a financial firm with activities in commercial finance and merchant banking in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. In 2000, he chaired the Advisory Committee of the U.S. Export-Import Bank.
Mr. Lockhart earned an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT, a Master’s Degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Stanford University.