U.S. Monetary Policy Forum

Jan Hatzius

Jan Hatzius, Managing Director and Chief U.S. Economist for Goldman Sachs, is based in the New York office, where he is responsible for setting the firm's U.S. economic and interest rate outlook. Hatzius has published widely on monetary and fiscal policy, the Goldman Sachs Financial Conditions Index, the housing market, inflation, corporate profits, consumption, and capital spending. He is frequently quoted in the financial press, such as the Economist, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and writes a regular column on the U.S. economy for the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in 1997, Hatzius was a research officer at the London School of Economics. He holds an economics doctorate from Oxford University, as well as degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Kiel Institute of World Economics.