David E. Altig

Dr. David E. Altig is executive vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. In addition to advising the Atlanta Fed president on monetary policy and related matters, Dr. Altig oversees the Bank's Research Division, which includes the Bank's team of economists, the Regional Economic Information Network, and the Bank's Community and Economic Development team. In this role, Dr. Altig leads the Atlanta Fed's research and engagement portfolio on benefits cliffs. He also serves as a member of the Bank's Executive Leadership Committee, Discount Committee, executive leadership team for the Bank’s Economic Mobility and Resilience strategic priority, and he is an executive cosponsor of the Bank's Working Families Employee Resource Network.

Dr. Altig is currently the president of the National Association for Business Economics. In addition, he is a lecturer in the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a member of the advisory council of the Global Interdependence Center. He also serves on the board of the Konstanz Seminar on Monetary Theory and Policy. From 1994 to 2019, Dr. Altig was an adjunct faculty member in the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. He has past and pending published research in several prominent professional journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the National Tax Journal.

Prior to joining the Atlanta Fed, Dr. Altig served as vice president and associate director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, where he started as a staff economist in 1991. Before joining the Cleveland Fed, Dr. Altig was a faculty member in the department of business economics and public policy at Indiana University. He has lectured at several other universities, including the Ohio State University, Case Western Reserve University, Duke University, the University of Iowa, the University of Wisconsin, and the Chinese Executive MBA program sponsored by the University of Minnesota and Lingnan College of Sun Yat-Sen University.