Miguel Faria-e-Castro is an economic policy advisor in the Research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, which he joined in July 2017. His principal areas of research are macroeconomics and finance, with emphasis on fiscal and monetary policy and financial stability. Faria-e-Castro earned a Ph.D. in economics from New York University, having previously earned M.Res. and B.A. degrees in economics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal).
His research has been published in professional economic journals including Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, and Journal of Monetary Economics. He teaches macroeconomics at Washington University in St. Louis and has previously taught at New York University and Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CNN, and Reuters, among other sources.