Eric Steven Rosengren, born on June 3, 1957, in Broomfield, Colorado, is an American economist and former central banker. He earned a B.S. in Economics from Brigham Young University in 1979 and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985. A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Rosengren joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in 1985, rising through positions including economist, vice president, and senior vice president before being appointed its thirteenth president and CEO on July 20, 2007. As former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, he served as a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), often advocating a hawkish stance on inflation and monetary policy. Rosengren led the Boston Fed until his abrupt retirement on September 30, 2021, amid controversy over his personal financial disclosures, including significant investments in commercial real estate such as multifamily housing properties, which raised conflict-of-interest concerns given the Fed's pandemic-era policies supporting that sector. He resigned alongside Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan following public scrutiny from media outlets like The Wall Street Journal and Politico. Post-retirement, Rosengren became a senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School, where he continues research on financial stability and monetary policy. Throughout his career, Rosengren has published extensively on banking supervision, financial crises, and economic inequality, drawing from his experience during events like the 1980s savings and loan crisis and the 2008 financial meltdown.