Rick Roberts joined the Department of Economics, Finance, and Real Estate at Monmouth University in 2019. His areas of expertise include domestic and international central banking; monetary policy; money, banking and financial institutions; and the interconnections between the Chinese and U.S. economies. He has published research in the Federal Reserve System’s Economic Review, its regional working paper series, and coordinated and edited the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) preparation materials. In 2016, Roberts published a top business book in China entitled “Firewood Held.” He has been quoted in outlets such as Newsweek, CNBC, China Financial Herald, Chinese Reference News, Yi Cai Media Group, and National Business Daily and has frequently provided international economic commentaries on the Hong Kong Phoenix Satellite TV Network. He is a member of the American Economic Association, Western Economic Association International, American Finance Association, and American Management Association

Prior to joining Monmouth, Rick spent 20 years with the Fed, where he held various senior positions ranging from Economist and Managing Director of Payments Systems at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City to Head of Daylight Credit Extensions and Risk Management at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York during the 2008 Financial Crisis. During the Crisis, he worked closely with senior leadership of the world’s largest domestic and foreign banks and their regulators to limit the Fed’s risk exposures. He holds an MBA with honors from Columbia University and an Economics degree with high honors from Pennsylvania State University.