Dennis Lockhart Email & Phone Number

Dennis Lockhart’s career includes time in the private sector, academia, and government.He is currently a distinguished professor-of-the-practice in the Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech. He serves on four for-profit company boards and various non-profit advisory boards. He chairs Emory’s Brain Health Center advisory council. In June 2018, he completed a year as a senior fellow in the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School where he worked on national infrastructure policy. Early in 2017, he stepped down from the position of president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. In this role, Lockhart served on the Federal Reserve’s chief monetary policy body, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). Before becoming a central banker, Lockhart was a member of the faculty of Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service where he chaired the Masters program’s concentrations in global commerce and finance and international business–government relations. He also was an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. Simultaneously, he was chairman of the Small Enterprise Assistance Funds, a sponsor of emerging markets venture capital/private equity funds. Earlier he was managing partner of a boutique private investment firm with activity in Africa and Latin America and president of Heller International Group, a financial firm with activities in commercial finance in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. In 2000, he chaired the Advisory Committee of the U.S. Export-Import Bank. At the start of his career, Lockhart held various positions, both international and domestic, with Citicorp/Citibank (now Citigroup). He worked in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Greece, Iran, Latin America, and Atlanta where he was Citicorp’s senior corporate officer and head of corporate banking for the southeast. Lockhart was born and grew up in California. He was educated at Stanford University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He also attended the Senior Executive Program at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. He holds an honorary doctorate from Georgia State University.