Diane Swonk
Advisory Board
Business and Economics
Protiviti
Belgium
Biography
Diane Swonk serves as an adviser to the U.S. Federal Reserve Board and its regional Reserve Banks; she has also periodically advised the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) for the White House on a nonpartisan basis. She is a distinguished fellow and past president of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE), a title she shares with several former Federal Reserve officials. Swonk is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Chicago Council. In 2016, Swonk founded DS Economics after more than 30 years in the financial services industry. Previously, she served as the Chief Economist for more than a decade with Mesirow Financial and before that, as the Director of Economics/Chief Economist for Bank One Corporation and its corporate predecessors beginning with First Chicago. Her commentary can regularly be seen in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, on CNBC and the BBC, and heard on NPR and Bloomberg radio. Swonk is a strong supporter of education. She serves on the board for the Posse Foundation in Chicago, an organization devoted to broadening access to higher education. She also sits on the NABE Foundation board, which offers scholarships in economics studies.
Research Interest
Business development
