Alessandra FogliAssistant Director for Inequality Research and Monetary Advisor

Alessandra Fogli is a monetary advisor and assistant director in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Fogli earned her bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Università Bocconi in Milan and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining the Minneapolis Fed, Fogli was an assistant professor at New York University and the University of Minnesota, a visiting professor at EIEF, and an associate professor at Università Bocconi in Milan. Fogli is also an adjunct associate professor at the University of Minnesota, faculty research fellow of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, affiliate of the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility at the University of Chicago, and of the Minnesota Economics Big Data Institute.

Her research explores how an individual’s social context, including family, neighborhood, and school, as well as society at large, affects economic behavior and in turn, aggregate economic outcomes. Fogli’s research has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economic Studies, among others. She is also an editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics.