Bill Nelson

William (Bill) Nelson is executive managing director, chief economist, and head of research at The Clearing House Association and chief economist of The Clearing House Payments Company. Nelson contributes to and oversees research and analysis to support the advocacy of the association on behalf of the owner banks. Before joining The Clearing House in 2016, Nelson was a deputy director of the Division of Monetary Affairs at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where his responsibilities included monetary policy analysis, discount window policy analysis, and financial institution supervision. Nelson attended Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings and regularly briefed the Board and the FOMC. He was a member of the Large Institution Supervision Coordinating Committee and the steering committee of the Comprehensive Liquidity Analysis and Review. He has chaired and participated in several Bank for International Settlements working groups on the design of liquidity regulations, and most recently, he chaired the Committee on the Global Financial System Markets Committee working group on regulatory change and monetary policy. Nelson has a Ph.D., an M.S., and an M.A. in economics from Yale University and a B.A. from the University of Virginia.