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Six New Directors Elected to NBER Board

Peter Hancock, Constance Hunter, Karin Kimbrough, Anne McCants, Andrew Racine, and Ann Huff Stevens were elected to the NBER Board of Directors at the board's September 2022 meeting.

Hancock is the former president and chief executive officer of American International Group, Inc. (AIG). His long career in the financial services industry focused on the measurement and management of risk in various market settings. Prior to joining AIG, he served as the chief financial officer and chief risk officer at JPMorgan, where he led the firm's fixed income unit and founded its global derivatives business. He was also vice chairman of KeyBank and a cofounder of Integrated Finance, Limited Hancock received his undergraduate degree in politics, philosophy, and economics at the University of Oxford. He is currendy a William Pitt Fellow of Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge. He will be an at-large board member.

Hunter, the representative of the National Association for Business Economics, is an executive vice president at AIG. She is the global head of strategy and environmental, social, and governance initiatives, with a particular focus on strategic opportunities associated with the transition to a cleaner energy future. Prior to joining AIG, she was the chief economist at KPMG. Hunter was an undergraduate economics and sociology major at New York University and holds an MA from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She is a member of the board of directors of the National Association for Business Economics and served as the organization's president in 2019-20. She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Kimbrough, another at-large member, is the chief economist at LinkedIn, a leading online professional network, where she leads a team of economists and data scientists that focuses on the intersection of economics, markets, and policy She previously served as assistant treasurer at Google, managing director and head of macro-economic policy at Bank of America, and as a vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Kimbrough received her undergraduate degree in economics from Stanford University, a master's in public policy with a focus on international economics from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and her doctorate in economics from the University of Oxford She is a member of the board of directors at Fannie Mae and serves on the Academic Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

McCants, who represents the Economic History Association on the NBER board is the Ann F. Friedlaender Professor...