The Financial Services Innovation Lab at the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta are co-organizing the third annual Household Finance Conference on March 27 - 28, 2025. Registration closes Thursday, March 14th at 11:59 p.m. EST.
The two-day conference will feature academic sessions, keynote addresses, and fireside chats to discuss the macroeconomic landscape, various issues impacting household balance sheets, and the challenges and opportunities to increase financial inclusion. The goal of this conference is to bring together academic researchers, regulators, and industry experts to a common platform for discussion on important topics in household finance.
Mark Begor has been Chief Executive Officer of Equifax and a member of its Board of Directors since April 2018, leading the $5 billion global data and analytics firm. Previously, he was a Managing Director at Warburg Pincus and spent 35 years at General Electric, where he led several multibillion-dollar businesses, including GE Energy Management, an $8 billion operation, as well as GE Capital Real Estate and GE Capital Retail Finance (now Synchrony Financial). He also served as CFO of NBCUniversal and led GE’s Investor Relations. Begor sits on the boards of NCR Corporation, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Foundation. He holds a bachelor’s from Syracuse University and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Anuj Mehrotra has been Dean and Stephen P. Zelnak Jr. Chair at the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business since January 2024, leading initiatives such as the M.S. Major in Management, the Center for Finance and Technology, and interdisciplinary minors. He also launched Tech Talks Business, a conversation series with industry leaders. Previously, he served as dean of the George Washington University School of Business, where he led a strategic transformation that strengthened stakeholder engagement, expanded programs, and elevated the school’s rankings. Mehrotra has served on multiple academic and industry boards, addressed the United Nations on diversity in business education, and collaborated with Fortune 500 companies. He holds a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech, an M.S. from Virginia Tech, and a B.S. from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science.
Jonathan A. Parker is the Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Financial Economics at MIT and codirector of both the MIT Sloan Consumer Finance Initiative and the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy. He is an Economic Adviser to the Congressional Budget Office, a coeditor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has held advisory and editorial roles at the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve Banks, Fidelity, and JPMorgan Chase Institute. An expert in finance, macroeconomics, and household behavior, he has published widely on macroeconomic risks, asset returns, household financial decisions, and fiscal policy.
Dr. Raphael W. Bostic took office June 5, 2017, as the 1 5th President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta . He is responsible for all the Bank's activities, including monetary policy, bank supervision and regulation, and payment services. In addition, he serves on the Federal Reserve's chief monetary policy body, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta serves the Sixth Federal Reserve District, which covers Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, and parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. The Bank has branches in Birmingham, Jacksonville, Miami, Nashville, and New Orleans.
Ed DeMarco is President of the Housing Policy Council . Prior to joining HPC in June 2017, Ed was a senior fellow in residence at the Milken Institute’s Center for Financial Markets. From 2009 to 2014, Ed was acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), where he served as the conservator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and regulator of those companies and the Federal Home Loan Banks. He has been named HousingWire Magazine’s Person of the Year for his impact on housing finance. He was chief operating officer and senior deputy director of the FHFA and its predecessor agency from 2006 to 2009. His career in public service includes positions at the Social Security Administration, the Treasury Department, and GAO. He earned a B.A. in economics from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland.
W. Scott Frame is Senior Vice President and Deputy Head of Research at Bank Policy Institute, where he focuses on issues related to securitization and household finance. He was previously Chief Economist and Head of Policy at the Structured Finance Association. Prior to joining SFA, Frame spent almost 25 years at the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Dallas in various roles. While at the Fed, he published numerous articles in leading academic journals and was involved in an array of projects related to financial stability, bank supervision, payments and monetary policy. Frame has also worked for the Treasury Department and as a professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Frame received his Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from the University of Georgia. He received his B.S. in economics from Arizona State University. 
Janneke Ratcliffe is Vice President for the Housing and Communities Division at the Urban Institute , where she focuses on increasing access to financial systems that promote economic security and prosperity. Prior to joining Urban, she served as assistant director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, leading the Office of Financial Education. Ratcliffe has also been executive director of the University of North Carolina Center for Community Capital and worked at GE Capital Mortgage, the Center for American Progress, and Self-Help. She serves on multiple advisory councils, including the National Housing Council and the Mortgage Bankers Association. Ratcliffe holds degrees in economics and French from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.