Skander Van den Heuvel

Skander Van den Heuvel is executive vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. He leads the Research and Financial Statistics departments and the Consumer Finance Institute, serves as the chief economic advisor to President and CEO Anna Paulson, provides counsel on the economic outlook and monetary policymaking, attends meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee, and serves on the Bank’s Executive Leadership Team.

His research focuses on macro-banking, monetary policy, and asset pricing. He has published extensively in academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, and International Journal of Central Banking.

Before joining the Philadelphia Fed in November 2026, Skander served in a variety of roles at the Federal Reserve Board, beginning in 2008. Most recently, he was senior associate director of the Division of Financial Stability, overseeing the Financial Institutions Risk Evaluation and Financial and Macroeconomic Stability Studies sections. From 2015 to 2017, he was a visiting research advisor in the European Central Bank’s Directorate General Research. Before the Fed, he was an assistant professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Skander has a Ph.D. and a master’s degree in economics from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.