Patrick Harker

Patrick Harker is president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, since 2015, helping formulate the nation’s monetary policy by participating on the Federal Open Market Committee. Previously, Harker was president of the University of Delaware, where he also was a professor of business administration and civil and environmental engineering, and dean of University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, where he had served in several roles. A White House fellow in 1991 and FBI director’s special assistant from 1991 to 1992, Harker was named a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences and a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2012.