Dr. Simon Firestone is an Economist at Meta. Prior to this, he was a Principal Economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors for eleven years. He started out in Consumer and Community Affairs, working on enforcing Fair Lending regulations in mortgage markets. He then switched to Supervision and Regulation, where he worked for years on Basel capital requirements and stress tests in both business and consumer credit markets. His latest role involved working on the evaluation of policy effectiveness in banking regulation. Economics is a second career for Simon, having 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.