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Garret Christensen

Senior Research Economist, Division of Depositor and Consumer Protection, FDIC

Garret Christensen is a Senior Research Economist in the Division of Depositor and Consumer Protection. His research interests include housing and consumer finance, poverty programs, and meta-science and reproducibility. Before joining the FDIC, Garret was an Economist with the US Census Bureau, a staff researcher with the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), and a data science fellow with the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS). He also taught economics at Swarthmore College and conducted water, sanitation, and hygiene research in western Kenya. He received his PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Last Updated: November 7, 2024