Dr. Simon Firestone is a Principal Economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. He has been at the Board for eleven years. He started out in Consumer and Community Affairs, working on enforcing Fair Lending regulations in mortgage markets. He switched to Supervision and Regulation, where he worked for years on Basel capital requirements and stress tests in both business and consumer credit markets. About three years ago, he switched to working on evaluation of policy effectiveness in banking regulation. Economics is a second career for Dr. Firestone; he started his professional life as an urban planner, working in New York City government in various roles. Aside from his career, he likes studying rabbinic texts and is a proud dog dad to Biscuit, a terrier mix.