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Stephen J. Douglass

Chief Economist

Committees: Member, Global Investment Committee

NISA’s Chief Economist and Global Investment Committee member, Stephen Douglass, analyzes the global economy, monetary and fiscal policy as well as interest rate markets. He is a thought leader regularly featured on NISA webinars and author of Perspectives, as well as a resource for NISA clients.

Stephen joined NISA in 2016. Prior to that, he was a trader/analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he analyzed U.S. interest rate markets and helped manage the Fed’s multi-trillion dollar portfolio of Treasury securities. He has previous experience as a trader at a multi-strategy hedge fund. Stephen earned a BA in Mathematical Economics from Colgate University, an MBA from INSEAD and an MA in International Economics from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

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