Ethan Harris | Managing Director | Head of North America Economics

 Ethan Harris is head of North America Economics and the coordinator for Global Economics at BofA Merrill Lynch Research. In this role, he is responsible for formulating and communicating the North America economic outlook and the Federal Reserve policy projection. As coordinator for Global Economics, Mr. Harris manages the teams that develop and articulate BofA Merrill Lynch forecasts and strategies outside of North America, and the outlook for their central banks. He also works in close partnership with the Rates Strategy Research team on longer term yield curve forecasts. 

Mr. Harris is highly recognized in his field and most recently ranked No.1 in the 2008 Wall Street Journal Economic Forecasting survey. He has also been named to the Institutional Investor All-America Fixed-Income Research Team for the past six years, placing No.2 in 2007. Previously, Mr. Harris worked at Barclays, formerly Lehman Brothers, where he was the chief U.S. Economist since 2003. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers in 1996, Mr. Harris worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for nine years where he served as the research officer in charge of the Domestic Division and as the assistant to the President of the Bank. Previously, he worked for several years as an international economist at J.P. Morgan. Mr. Harris is the author of Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University, where he was a University Fellow.