Associate Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Laila Assanie is an associate economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. As a member of the Research Department’s regional group, she conducts research on regional economic issues, produces articles for various bank publications and contributes to the Dallas Fed’s website.

Her other responsibilities include coordinating the production of and writing the release for Dallas Fed’s Quarterly Survey of Agricultural Credit Conditions and the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey.  She also administers the team that produces the 11th District Beige Book—the Bank’s survey of regional economic conditions.

Assanie, who has been with the Dallas Fed since 2003, holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Northwestern University and a MS in economics and finance from the London School of Economics.