Paul A. Volcker Lifetime Achievement Award for Economic Policy

The Paul A. Volcker Lifetime Achievement Award for Economic Policy was established in 2013 to recognize outstanding contributions to the field of economic and monetary policy. The award is presented annually at the NABE Economic Policy Conference in Washington, DC.

Recipients of the Volcker Award

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  2026 Christine Lagarde

  “Turning Size into Scale: Europe’s New Growth Model”
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  2025 Anne Case and Sir Angus Deaton

  “The Great Divide: Education and Mortality”
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  2024 Mario Draghi

  “Economic Policy in a Changing World”
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  2023 Janet Yellen

  “Financial Stability”
• 2022
  2022 Mark Carney

  “Climate Policy Is Macro Policy”
• 2020
  2020 Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., CBE

  “A Conversation with Roger Ferguson”
• 2019
  2019 Alan Greenspan

  “Forces Engendering the Long-Term Economic Outlook”
• 2018
  2018 Lord Mervyn Allister King

  “Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis”
• 2017
  2017 Joseph E. Stiglitz

  “The Overselling of Globalization: Truth and Consequences”
• 2016
  2016 Stanley Fischer

  “Reflections on Monetary Policy”
• 2015
  2015 Alice Rivlin

  “Thoughts on Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Post-Inflation Era”
• 2014
  2014 Jean-Claude Trichet

  “Remarks and Reflections on European Monetary Policy”
• 2013
  2013 Paul A. Volcker

  “Lessons from the Financial Collapse—Learned or Forgotten?”