President Biden has nominated Lisa Cook, a professor of economics and international relations at Michigan State University, to join the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. She previously worked as a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers during the Obama administration and spent a year as a Treasury Department senior adviser during the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.
Dr. Cook has often written about how innovation, inequality and discrimination affect economic growth. She has also researched topics in international economics, studying development and banking systems in countries such as Russia and Nigeria.
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