Jim Bullard is the Dr. Samuel R. Allen Dean of the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business at Purdue University. He also serves as a special advisor to Purdue President Mung Chiang. Prior to joining the university in 2023, Bullard spent 15 years as the president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He earned significant praise for his long-standing leadership as part of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), and he was ranked the seventh-most influential economist in the world in 2014. He began his career at the Fed in 1990, starting as an economist in the research division and later serving as vice president and deputy director of research for monetary analysis. For 15 years, he directed the activities of the Federal Reserve’s Eighth District. Bullard earned undergraduate degrees in quantitative methods and information systems, and economics, from St. Cloud State University and a doctorate in economics from Indiana University.