Josh Younger

Josh Younger is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Law and the Economy and a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School.  His research focuses on the history of money, banking, and the Federal Reserve as well as financial stability, financial crisis response, monetary policy implementation, interest rate markets, derivatives markets and other topics.  Josh has held a variety of senior roles over roughly two decades in financial services, including as a Senior Strategist at J.P. Morgan, Global Head of ALM (Asset-Liability Management) at J.P. Morgan, a Senior Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and as an institutional investment manager.  His work has been published in a variety of venues, including the Harvard Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, and other publication.  Josh is also co-author of The Global Dollar, forthcoming with Princeton University Press.  He is widely quoted cited and covered by major news outlets including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, and others.  He is currently a member of Financial Stability Advisory Council at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Prior to his roles in financial services, Josh was an astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ where he was a Member and Hubble Space Telescope Fellow.  His research focused on cosmology, galaxy formation, galaxy collisions, and the growth of supermassive black holes using a combination of observational and theoretical techniques.  He holds an AB in Astrophysics from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Harvard University.