Chair Powell's calendar
February 2021
| February 1, Monday | |
| 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Phone call with Federal Reserve Bank President |
| 3:00 p.m. – 3:42 p.m. | Conference call with staff |
| 5:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Phone call with Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA) and staff |
| February 2, Tuesday | |
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Phone call with Congressman Patrick McHenry (NC) |
| 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | Phone call with Senator Cynthia Lummis (WY) and staff |
| 3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | Phone call with staff |
| 3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Phone call with Board member |
| February 3, Wednesday | |
| 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Conference call with staff |
| 10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Phone call with Senator Mark Kelly (AZ) and staff |
| February 4, Thursday | |
| 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Federal Advisory Committee virtual meeting |
| 10:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | Conference call with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen; John Williams, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Acting Chairman Rostin Behnam, Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and Acting Chair Allison Herren Lee, Securities and Exchange Commission |
| 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Phone call with Congressman Brad Sherman (CA) and staff |
| 1:45 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. | Phone call with Senator Ben Ray Luján (NM) and staff |
| 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Phone call with Board member |
| February 5, Friday | |
| 8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. | Phone call with Board member and Federal Reserve Bank President |
| 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Phone call with Senator Sherrod Brown (OH) and staff |
| 9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. | Phone call with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen |
| 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Video conference call with Andrew Bailey, Governor; Jon Cunliffe, Deputy Governor Ben Broadbent, Deputy Governor; Dave Ramsden, Deputy Governor; James Talbot; and Nick McLaren, Bank of England; and Board member and staff |
| 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Phone call with Senator Alex Padilla (CA) and staff |
| 1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Phone call with Board member |
| 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | Conference call with staff |
| 3:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | Phone call with Larry Fink, CEO, BlackRock |
| 4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Phone call with Senator Pat Toomey (PA) |
| February 8, Monday | |
| 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Conference call with The Economic Club of New York staff for a webinar event |
| 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Virtual Board meeting |
| 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Phone call with Federal Reserve Bank President |
| 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Phone call with staff |
| 3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | Phone call with Congressman Jim Himes (CT) and staff |
| 4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Phone call with Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO) and staff |
| 5:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Conference call with staff |
| February 9, Tuesday | |
| 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Conference call with staff |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Phone call with Senator Steve Daines (MT) and staff |
| 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Phone call with Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (MO) and staff |
| 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Phone call with Congresswoman Joyce Beatty (OH) and staff |
| 2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Phone call with Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI) and staff |
| 3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Phone call with Board member |
| 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Phone call with media |
| 5:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Meeting with Jamie Dimon, CEO, JPMorgan Chase |
| February 10, Wednesday | |
| 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | The Economic Club of New York virtual webinar Location: Eccles studio |
| February 11, Thursday | |
| 8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. | Phone call with Board member and Federal Reserve Bank President |
| 9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Phone call with Senator Raphael Warnock (GA) and staff |
| 3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | Phone call with Board member |
| February 12, Friday | |
| 7:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors virtual meeting |
| 9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Phone call with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen |
| 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Phone call with media |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Phone call with Board member |
| 1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Phone call with Board member |
| 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Conference of Business Economists virtual meeting |
| February 15, Monday | |
| All Day | Board holiday - Presidents' Day |
| February 16, Tuesday | |
| 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Conference call with Board member and staff |
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Phone call with Board member |
| 10:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | Phone call with Senator Jon Ossoff (GA) and staff |
| 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Virtual meeting with International Monetary Fund Staff and Board members |
| 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Conference call with staff |
| 3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | Conference call with staff |
| 3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Phone call with staff |
| 4:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. | Phone call with Congresswoman Ann Wagner (MO) and staff |
| February 17, Wednesday | |
| 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. | Conference call with Agustin Carstens, General Manager, Bank for International Settlements and staff |
| 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Virtual Board meeting |
| 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Phone call with media |
| 3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Phone call with staff |
| 4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Phone call with Federal Reserve Bank President |
| February 18, Thursday | |
| 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Conference call with staff |
| 12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Conference call with staff |
| 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Conference call with staff |
| 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Phone call with Board member |
| 4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Phone call with Congressman Andy Barr (KY) and staff |
| 4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Phone call with Board member and Federal Reserve Bank President |
| 5:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Phone call with Christine Lagarde, President, European Central Bank |
| February 19, Friday | |
| 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | Conference call with staff |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Phone call with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen |
| 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Phone call with Congressman French Hill (AR) and staff |
| 1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Phone call with Board member |
| 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Phone call with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) and staff |
| 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Phone call with staff |
| 3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | Conference call with staff |
| 3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Conference call with staff |
| 4:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. | Phone call with Brian Deese, Director, National Economic Council |
| February 22, Monday | |
| 8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. | Phone call with Board member and Federal Reserve Bank President |
| 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Virtual Board meeting |
| 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee virtual meeting |
| 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Conference call with staff |
| 5:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. | Phone call with Senator Mike Crapo (ID) |
| 5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. | Phone call with Board member |
| February 23, Tuesday | |
| 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Virtual Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress - Senate Banking Committee |
| 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Conference call with staff |
| February 24, Wednesday | |
| 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Virtual House Financial Services Committee Hearing: "Monetary Policy and the State of the Economy" |
| February 25, Thursday | |
| 7:45 a.m. – 8:10 a.m. | Conference call with staff |
| 8:15 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. | Phone call with Board member |
| 9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. | Phone call with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen |
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. | Conference call with staff |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Phone call with Federal Reserve Bank President |
| 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Phone call with staff |
| 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Conference call with staff |
| 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Phone call with Board member |
| 3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Phone call with Board member |
| 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Conference call with staff |
| February 26, Friday | |
| 6:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors virtual meeting |
| 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | Conference call with staff |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Call with media |
| 1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Phone call with Board member |
| 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Conference call with staff |
| 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Phone call with staff |
| 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Conference call with staff |