Julia Coronado is an economist. She is president and founder of the economic research firm MacroPolicy Perspectives and a clinical associate professor at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.Previously, she was chief economist at Graham Capital Management and the global investment bank BNP Paribas, and a senior economist at Barclays Capital. She served as a staff economist at the Federal Reserve Board.Coronado has published scholarly articles about pension finances, Social Security, retirement saving, data collection, and monetary policy. She is a member of the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Economic Studies Council at the Brookings Institution.Coronado received her B.A. in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.