Karen Kopecky
Economic and Policy Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Visiting Faculty and Adjunct Professor, Emory University
Karen Kopecky is an economic and policy advisor in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Her primary field of study is macroeconomics, with interests in inequality, public finance, insurance markets, retirement, health, and computational methods for macroeconomic modeling.
Prior to joining the Bank in 2023, Kopecky was a research economist and advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. She also spent four years as an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Western Ontario.
Kopecky has a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Buffalo and earned both her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rochester.