About
Richard Roberts is a specialist professor in the Department of Economics, Finance, and Real Estate at Monmouth University. He teaches courses in various areas, including macroeconomics and money and banking. He has also published various articles on Monetary Policy, Money and Banking, and the US economic outlook. Moreover, he is active in public discourse on economic, monetary policy, and banking issues.
Rick is a former 20+-year executive of the Federal Reserve System. During his tenure, he headed the New York Central Bank’s Credit Risk Management during the 2008 financial crisis, led the Payment Systems Risk area, chaired key System committees on counterparty risk identification and mitigation, and oversaw the preparation of FOMC monetary policy briefing materials for the President of the Kansas City Reserve Bank. Moreover, he took a brief break from the Fed in the early 2000s to serve as principal of a boutique subprime mortgage hedge fund.
He holds an Executive MBA from Columbia University and an undergraduate degree in Economics from Pennsylvania State University.