Sandra Pianalto, president and chief executive of Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, will speak at West Liberty University on June 28, 2013.
Sandra Pianalto, president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, will address the University Economics Club at noon, Friday, June 28, at River City Restaurant, 1400 Main St.
Open to the public, the event is cosponsored by Wheeling Area Chamber of Commerce and the Center for Economic Philosophy at West Liberty University.
As president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Pianalto has both national and local leadership responsibilities. She participates in the formulation of U.S. monetary policy, and she oversees 950 employees in Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh who conduct economic research, supervise financial institutions, and provide payment services to commercial banks and the U.S. government.
Pianalto joined the Bank in 1983 as an economist in the Research Department. She was appointed assistant vice president of public affairs in 1984, vice president and secretary to the board of directors in 1988, and first vice president and chief operating officer in 1993. She assumed her position as president in 2003.
Before joining the Bank, Pianalto was an economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and served on the staff of the Budget Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Pianalto is active in the Fourth Federal Reserve District’s civic community. She is vice chair of the board of University Hospitals and serves as a past chair and a life director of the board of United Way of Greater Cleveland. Pianalto also serves as an advisory trustee for The University of Akron. She serves on the boards of a number of other community organizations, including The Cleveland Foundation, Greater Cleveland Partnership, Team Northeast Ohio (Team NEO), and College Now Greater Cleveland.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from The University of Akron and a master’s in economics from The George Washington University. She is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and holds honorary degrees from The University of Akron, Baldwin-Wallace College, Cleveland State University John Carroll University, Kent State University, Notre Dame College, Ursuline College and The University of Toledo.
Founded in 2009, the BB&T Center for Economic Philosophy at West Liberty University seeks to engage faculty, students and the public in serious and sustained examination of the free market.
It is chaired by Dr. Erik Root, associate professor of political science.
For more information on this event or to RSVP for the lunch ($15 check or cash only), payable at the door, please call 304-336-8301 or email Jeff Knierim at jknierim@westliberty.edu.
