Josh Wright currently serves as the Chief Economist at iCIMS, where he is responsible for analyzing proprietary and external data to produce fresh insights on emerging trends in the U.S. labor market. Josh has nearly 15 years of experience, including on staff at the Federal Reserve, where he helped build the Fed’s mortgage-backed securities (MBS) portfolio of more than $1 trillion, among other responses to the global financial crisis. Josh graduated from Yale University where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree, and earned his Master of Public Policy in Economics from Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Josh has published original research everywhere from academic journals to popular blogs, and his insights on the state of the labor market and the U.S. economy as a whole have been quoted by a variety of major media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, The Associated Press, and Bloomberg.