Vice President and Senior Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

William C. Gruben serves the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas as vice president, and senior economist in the international macroeconomics group. His research focuses on international trade, international capital flows, currency regimes and banking—chiefly as these subjects apply to developing countries, in particular those of Latin America. He has published extensively on these topics in scholarly and technical journals.

Gruben holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas at Austin. He worked as a research associate at the university's Institute for Latin American Studies and its Center for Economic Development. He has served on the faculty of economics at Southern Methodist University and on the faculty of International Management Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas.