Dana M. Peterson

Chief Economist and Leader, Economy, Strategy & Finance Center The Conference Board

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Dana M. Peterson

Dana M. Peterson

Chief Economist and Leader, Economy, Strategy & Finance Center
The Conference Board

Dana M Peterson is the Chief Economist and Leader of the Economy, Strategy & Finance Center at The Conference Board, where she brings Trusted Insights for What’s Ahead® to C-suite executives of Fortune 500 firms.

Prior to this, she served as a North America Economist and later as a Global Economist at Citi, one of the world’s largest investment banks. Her wealth of experience extends to the public sector, having also worked at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C.

Dana’s broad economics portfolio includes analyzing global themes having direct financial market implications, including growth; monetary policy; inflation; labor markets; fiscal and trade policy; debt; taxation; consumption; and demographics. Her work also examines myriad U.S. themes leveraging granular data and identifying risks and gray swan events that might impact firms globally.

Peterson and her research have been featured by U.S. and international news outlets: in print, on broadcasts, and at large media events. Publications and networks include CNBC, FOX Business, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, BBC, Thomson-Reuters, CNN Finance, Yahoo Finance, Schwab Network, Harvard Business Review, and Barron’s.

Dana is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Global Interdependence Center (GIC). She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, National Association for Business Economics (NABE), the New York Association for Business Economics (NYABE), National Business Economics Issues Council (NBEIC), and the Forecasters Club.

She received an undergraduate degree in Economics from Wesleyan University and a Master of Science degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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