Bennett McCallum

Who is Bennett McCallum?

Bennett T. McCallum is an American monetary economist. He is H. J. Heinz Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business.

McCallum earned a B.A. and a B.Sc. from Rice University. He then attended Harvard Business School to earn his M.B.A., before returning to Rice in order to obtain his Ph.D. in economics.

He became professor at Carnegie Mellon in 1981, after holding a professorship at the University of Virginia. Among his doctoral students was Charles L. Evans, the current president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.