Senior Economist and Vice President
Director, Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Mark A. Wynne is vice president and senior economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and the first Director of the Bank’s Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute, which was established on October 1, 2007. He has also taught as an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University in both the graduate and undergraduate economics programs. His main research interests are in the areas of international macroeconomics and monetary economics, and he has published a variety of papers in the leading professional journals and in various Dallas Fed publications. In recent years he has worked on understanding how globalization impacts the conduct of monetary policy.

Before joining the Dallas Fed, Wynne did graduate work at the University of Rochester in New York, where he earned his Ph.D. He has also worked at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin and at the Central Bank of Ireland. Prior to the launch of the euro Wynne spent 16 months in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, working for the European Monetary Institute  and subsequently for the European Central Bank (ECB). During this time, he worked on issues related to the strategy of monetary policy under Economic and Monetary Union and the measurement of inflation in the euro area. He also played the lead role in designing and implementing the ECB’s Survey of Professional Forecasters, which is now regularly featured in the ECB’s Monthly Bulletin.

In addition to a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester, Wynne also holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics (with first class honors) from the National University of Ireland (University College Dublin). He is a member of the American Economic Association and the European Economic Association.