Matteo Iacoviello is a senior associate director in the Division of the International Finance of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where he oversees the work of the Global Modeling and the Trade and Financial Studies sections. He is an editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics, an associate editor of the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and a member of the CEPR research network on geoeconomics. In the past, he served as a consultant for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the IMF, the ECB, and the Bank of Canada.

Iacoviello's research interests are in macroeconomics, monetary economics, and international finance. His research has focused on inflation and monetary policy, geopolitical risks, the implications of trade uncertainty, the solution and estimation of models with occasionally binding constraints, and the linkages between housing prices and business cycles. His work has been published in leading general interest and field journals in economics, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the AEJ Macro, the Review of Financial Studies, the International Economic Review, and the Review of Economic Dynamics. His research has been featured in major media, including the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, the Washington Post, the Economist, and Forbes.

Prior to joining the Federal Reserve Board, Iacoviello was a professor of economics at Boston College from 2002 through 2009. He has also taught at Georgetown University, the Catholic University of Milan, the University of Milan, and DIW Berlin. Iacoviello holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics, a Ph.D. in Economic Theory and Institutions from the University of Bologna, and an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Rome Tor Vergata.