May Breakfast - JESSE THOMPSON, Senior Business Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Jesse Thompson serves as a senior business economist at the Houston Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Thompson, who joined the Bank in 2010, performs research and analysis on issues affecting the Houston and Gulf Coast economy. In particular, he studies issues surrounding area hydrocarbon industries. He also collects information for the Dallas Fed’s Beige Book summary of current economic conditions. He is the author of the monthly Energy Indicators, and the Houston Economic Indicators, and contributes to the quarterly publication Southwest Economy.

Thompson earned an MA in economics, with an emphasis on empirical microeconomics, and a BA in philosophy and economics from the University of Houston.