Alex J. Pollock is a Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute. He was the Principal Deputy Director of the Office of Financial Research in the U.S. Treasury 2019-2021; a distinguished senior fellow at the R Street Institute in Washington, DC 2015-2019, 2021; a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute 2004-2015; President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago 1991-2004; and a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 1991. Mr. Pollock focuses on financial policy issues, including financial cycles, government-sponsored enterprises, housing finance, banking, central banking, uncertainty and risk, retirement finance, corporate governance, and financial crises with their political responses. He is the author of Finance and Philosophy—Why We’re Always Surprised (2018), of Boom and Bust: Financial Cycles and Human Prosperity (2011), and co-author of Surprised Again!—The Covid Crisis and the New Market Bubble, as well as numerous articles and Congressional testimony. He previously served as a director of CME Group 2004-2019, and of Ascendium Education Group 1989-2019, and continues as a director of the Great Books Foundation, where he was Chairman of the Board 2006-2014. Mr. Pollock is a graduate of Williams College, the University of Chicago, and Princeton University. He and his wife, Anne, live in Lake Forest, Illinois.