Alex J. Pollock is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the R. Street Institute and he formerly served as the Principal Deputy Director of the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Financial Research.
Prior to joining the Department of Treasury, Pollock was a Resident Distinguished Senior Fellow at the R Street Institute. In that capacity, he provided thought and policy leadership on financial issues, including the understanding of financial systems, cycles of boom and bust, financial crises, risk and uncertainty, central banking and the politics of finance.
Alex joined R Street from the American Enterprise Institute, where he was a resident fellow. Prior to that, he was president and CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago.
Pollock also served as a director of the CME Group, a director of Ascendium Education Group, and serves as a director and past-chairman of the Great Books Foundation. He is a past president of the International Union for Housing Finance.
He is the author of Boom and Bust: Financial Cycles and Human Prosperity (2011) and Finance and Philosophy: Why We’re Always Surprised (2018).
Alex is a graduate of Williams College, the University of Chicago, and Princeton University.
A Webinar on Central Bank Digital Currencies
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What's Next for Fannie, Freddie, and Housing Finance Reform?
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Money and the Constitution
2019 National Lawyers Convention
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
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2019 National Lawyers Convention
Originalism
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Fireside Chat: Alex Pollock and Fifty Years Without Gold
Fifty years ago, on August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon put the economic and financial...
Fireside Chat: Alex Pollock and Fifty Years Without Gold
Fifty years ago, on August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon put the economic and financial...
A Webinar on Central Bank Digital Currencies
Financial Services & E-Commerce Practice Group Teleforum
With expressions ranging from enthusiasm to serious interest, central banks from China to Europe have...
A Webinar on Central Bank Digital Currencies
Financial Services & E-Commerce Practice Group Teleforum
With expressions ranging from enthusiasm to serious interest, central banks from China to Europe have...
What's Next for Fannie, Freddie, and Housing Finance Reform?
Regulatory Transparency Project
On December 10, 2019, the Regulatory Transparency Project hosted an event at the National Press...