The Benjamin H. Griswold III, Class of 1933, Center for Economic Policy Studies fosters communication among members of the academic, business, and government communities. The Visiting Scholars Program in the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies (GCEPS) offers the opportunity to appoint former senior policy practitioners and enable research collaboration with faculty, mentoring and student instruction, and enhancement of the intellectual and academic life of the Department of Economics.

In September 2025, Loretta J. Mester will join the Griswold Center as a senior research scholar. Carolyn A. Wilkins joined the center in January 2022, and continues to serve as a senior research scholar. William C. Dudley was appointed as the inaugural senior research scholar in 2019, and now serves as senior advisor to the Griswold Center.

Loretta J. Mester is a Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies senior research scholar in the Department of Economics at Princeton University, and an adjunct full professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Current areas of interest include monetary policy strategic framework, monetary policy communications, central bank governance, inflation, financial intermediation and regulation, and payments. Mester served as president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, 2014–2024; and participated in the formulation of U.S. monetary policy and oversaw more than 1,000 employees based at the Bank’s Cleveland office and Branch offices in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Prior to joining the Cleveland Fed, she served at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, starting in 1985 as an economist, becoming senior vice president and director of research in 2000, and executive vice president and director of research in 2010. Mester is a co-editor of the Journal of Financial Services Research; and has taught in the undergraduate finance and MBA programs at Wharton and in the PhD program in finance at New York University. She is a trustee of the Cleveland Clinic, a trustee of the Musical Arts Association (Cleveland Orchestra), a director of the Council for Economic Education, and a director of the Haverford Trust Company, a director of Renaissance Re, and a member of the advisory council of the Visa Economic Empowerment Institute. Mester earned a BA in mathematics and economics from Barnard College of Columbia University; and a PhD in economics from Princeton University, where she was an NSF fellow.

Carolyn A. Wilkins is a Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies senior research scholar in the Department of Economics at Princeton University, and an external member of the Financial Policy Committee at the Bank of England. Wilkins also co-leads both the Bretton Woods Committee Digital Finance Project Team and serves on the board of directors at Intact Financial Corporation, a company that provides property and casualty insurance in Canada and specialty insurance in North America and Europe. In 2022-23, she co-led the independent review of the Reserve Bank of Australia. Previously, Wilkins had a twenty-year career at the Bank of Canada (2000-2020). She served as its senior deputy governor from 2014 to 2020. Her role included setting monetary and financial system policies with the Governing Council, and overseeing strategic planning and economic research. Wilkins led the development of the Bank of Canada’s market liquidity facilities and large-scale asset purchase program as part of its response to COVID-19. She has contributed to international financial policies over her career, most recently as the Bank of Canada’s G20 and G7 deputy and member of the Financial Stability Board. She has published and spoken on a broad range of international issues, including economic resilience, global financial regulation, and fintech. Wilkins was awarded an honorary doctorate from Wilfrid Laurier University, and received an MA from the University of Western Ontario and a BA from Wilfrid Laurier University, both in economics.

William C. Dudley is the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies senior advisor in the Department of Economics at Princeton University, after serving as the inaugural senior research scholar from 2019-2021. Dudley also chairs the Bretton Woods Committee, and co-leads its Digital Finance Project Team and is a member of its Sovereign Debt Working Group and Multilateral Reform Working Group; and is a member of the Group of Thirty and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dudley served as the tenth president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2009-2018, and as vice-chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). Previously, he served as executive vice president of the Markets Group at the New York Fed, where he also managed the System Open Market Account for the FOMC. Prior to joining the Bank in 2007, he was a partner and managing director at Goldman, Sachs & Company and was the firm’s chief U.S. economist for a decade. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in 1986, he was a vice president at the former Morgan Guaranty Trust Company. Dudley holds a BA in economics from New College of Florida, and a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

  • Loretta J. Mester, 2025-
  • Carolyn A. Wilkins, 2022-
  • William C. Dudley, 2019-

Economics Department Article, 3/1/22: Princeton’s Griswold Center Welcomes Carolyn Wilkins as a Senior Research Scholar.