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Dallas Fed announces executive promotion at San Antonio Branch

For immediate release: June 5, 2012

DALLAS—Keith Phillips has been promoted to senior economic policy advisor at the San Antonio Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Phillips joined the Dallas Fed in 1984 as an economic analyst. In 1996, he moved to the San Antonio Branch to enhance the Bank’s regional economic coverage in South Texas.

Phillips developed business-cycle indexes for Texas and its major metro areas, which he uses to analyze business conditions in those regions. He is a contributing member of the Western Blue Chip Economic Forecasting Group, where he has been the most accurate Texas forecaster for eight out of the past 13 years.

Phillips teaches courses in managerial economics and quantitative analysis at the executive MBA program at UTSA.

Phillips holds a Ph.D. in economics from Southern Methodist University. He also holds a B.A. and M.A. in economics and a bachelor’s of journalism degree in news/editorial from the University of Missouri at Columbia.

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James Hoard
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Phone: (214) 922-5307
Email: James.Hoard@dal.frb.org