Economist
Houston Branch
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Adriana Z. Fernandez is an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Houston Branch. Her main research interests lie in the field of monetary policy and currency crises. She has worked on topics such as the implications of institutional quality in the effectiveness of central banks’ policy actions.

Fernandez holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Houston and a graduate degree in international relations and economics from the École Nationale d'Administration Publique (ENA) in Paris.

Before coming to the Dallas Fed in March 2005, she taught economics at the University of Houston, worked for the European Commission in Brussels and held diverse positions in the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the State of Hidalgo, Mexico, and the National Bank of Commerce and Trade in Mexico City.