Christopher Waller

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Christopher J. Waller (born 1959) is an American economist who has been a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since 2020. A nominee of President Donald Trump, he was confirmed by the Senate in December 2020 to serve through January 2030. He previously served as the research director of and executive vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Waller's research has centered on monetary theory, political economy and macroeconomic theory. Waller was born in Nebraska City, Nebraska, in 1959. He spent his childhood in South Dakota and then Minnesota. Waller received a B.S. in economics from Bemidji State University in 1981 and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Washington State University in 1984 and 1985. Waller worked at Indiana University's Department of Economics from 1985 to 1998, where he was an assistant professor, associate professor, and director of graduate studies. He was a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Washington University in St. Louis from 1994 to 1995. He taught economics at the University of Kentucky from 1998 to 2003 and was also a research fellow at the Center for European Integration Studies at the University of Bonn, in Germany.