Patrick T. Harker
| Patrick T. Harker | |
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| 11th President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia |
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Assumed office July 1, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Charles Plosser |
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| Born | November 19, 1958 |
| Spouse(s) | Emily Saaty |
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B.S.E. and M.S.E., University of Pennsylvania, 1981 M.A. and Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1983 |
| Profession | Central Banker |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Website | www |
Patrick Timothy Harker (born November 19, 1958) is the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Harker previously served as the President of University of Delaware. He was the dean of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 2001 to 2007. He began his presidency of the University of Delaware in 2007 and resigned in 2015.
Harker grew up in Gloucester City, New Jersey. He graduated from St. Mary's School in Gloucester in 1973, and was a scholar athlete at Gloucester Catholic High School.
Before receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983, Harker worked as a consulting engineer in Philadelphia and New York City. He was a faculty member of the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1983–1984.
Harker was named a Presidential Young Investigator by the National Science Foundation in 1986 and as a White House Fellow by President George H.W. Bush in 1991. In the latter position, he spent 1991-1992 as a Special Assistant to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Harker joined the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1984. From 1994 to 1996, Harker served as a professor and Chair of the Systems Engineering Department in Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Harker served as chair of Wharton’s Operations and Information Management Department. In February 2000, he was appointed dean of the Wharton School and Reliance Professor of Management and Private Enterprise. He was a senior fellow at the Wharton Financial Institutions Center and held a secondary appointment as a professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering at Penn. He also served as director of the school's Fishman-Davidson Center for the Study of the Service Sector. When he was named UPS Transportation Professor of the Private Sector in 1991, Dr. Harker became the youngest faculty member in Wharton’s history awarded an endowed professorship. From 1996–99, he served as editor-in-chief of the premier journal Operations Research.
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