Jim Bullard

James “Jim” Bullard is dean of the Mitch Daniels School of Business at Purdue University, a position he assumed in August 2023. He also serves as special advisor to Purdue President Mung Chiang and as a Distinguished Professor of Service in the business school’s economics department.

Previously, Bullard served 15 years as president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis where, as a regular and active member of the Federal Open Market Committee, he helped guide U.S. monetary policy. A noted economist and scholar, Bullard had been the longest-serving Federal Reserve Bank president in the country and in 2014 ranked as the seventh-most influential economist in the world.

Before becoming president in 2008, Bullard served in various roles at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, starting in 1990 as an economist in the research division. He later served as vice president and deputy director of research for monetary analysis.

Bullard was an honorary professor of economics at Washington University in St. Louis, where he served on several advisory boards, including the advisory council of the economics department. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch named him the Top Workplace Leader among the region’s large employers in 2018. He has served on the board of directors of Concordance Academy of Leadership in St. Louis and was formerly the board chair of the United Way U.S.A.

Bullard earned bachelor’s degrees in economics and in quantitative methods and information systems from St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. He earned his doctorate in economics from Indiana University.