Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria, First Vice President

Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria is an economic policy advisor in the Research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, which she joined in March 2014. Her research interests are in the fields of international macroeconomics and search theory. She has done work on the direction of capital flows, debt crises, sovereign default in commodity rich economies, the incidence of the informal sector in the macroeconomy, labor market frictions, and theoretical models of the marriage and dating market. She received her Ph.D. in economics from UCLA in 2010.

Restrepo-Echavarria’s work has been published in American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, and European Economic Review, among others. She teaches international economics for Ph.D. students at Washington University in St. Louis, is an associate editor for the Review of Economic Dynamics, is the secretary of the Society for Economic Dynamics and a member of the board of directors of RIDGE.

In her free time she serves on the advisory board of the Fondazione Cristiana Benedetti Fasil, a non-profit organization supporting Women in STEM in Africa. Restrepo-Echavarria was conferred the Rodrigo Gomez International Central Banking Award in 2005 for her work on inflation targeting, she was an assistant professor of economics at The Ohio State University, and worked as a researcher at Banco de La Republica de Colombia.