Richard Brain. Berner

Dr. Richard B.
Berner is a Managing Director & Economist at Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and a Member at Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Priot to joining Morgan Stanley in 1999, Mr. Berner was Executive Vice President and Chief Economist at Mellon Bank Corporation and a member of Mellon Bank's Senior Management Committee.
Previously, he served as a Principal and Senior Economist for Morgan Stanley, as a Director and Senior Economist for Salomon Brothers, as Economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, and as Director of the Washington, DC, office of Wharton Econometrics.
Mr. Berner also served as Economist for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where he co-directed the Fed's model-based forecasting efforts.
Mr. Berner holds a bachelor's degree from Harvard College and a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Berner is a member of the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a member of the Panel of Economic Advisers of the Congressional Budget Office, a member of the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of Commerce.
He served as an associate for the Counterparty Risk Management Policy Group II.
He is a Past President and Fellow of the National Association for Business Economics.