Kevin is currently a Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF), where he is the Director of the Climate-Related Financial and Macroeconomic Risk Initiative, a research collaboration with The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University focused on understanding the financial and economic impact of climate change. His research focuses on the impact of climate change on the financial system and the implications for supervisory and regulatory policy.
Kevin previously held senior roles in the Federal Reserve System over a 25-year career. He served as a Senior Advisor in the Division of Supervision and Regulation at the Federal Reserve Board, where he designed and led the Fed’s microprudential approach to the financial risks of climate change and co-chaired the Basel Committee’s Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Risks. Prior to that role, Kevin served as Executive Vice President and Head of the Supervision Group and held other senior roles at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
He has also worked as a Wall Street equity analyst and as a professor of economics. Kevin has published his academic research in leading economic and finance journals.
He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from Harvard University and B.A. in Economics and Psychology from Swarthmore College.
Research Interests
- Financial risks of climate change
- Microprudential and macroprudential policy