Leo Feler Keynote Speaker

Chief Economist at Numerator and Expert in Consumer Behavior & Macroeconomics
Visiting Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Previously Senior Economist at UCLA Anderson School of Management, Cornerstone Research (specializing in mergers & antitrust), Boston Consulting Group, Johns Hopkins University, and The World Bank

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Leo Feler's Biography

Leo Feler, Ph.D., is Chief Economist at Numerator, a consumer research firm, and Visiting Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Leo regularly briefs c-suite executives of Fortune 500 companies on the state of the US consumer and implications of policy changes on consumer behavior and the US economy.

Together with economists at the Federal Reserve, Leo developed a “Better Way of Understanding the US Consumer.” Leo’s research focuses on understanding how consumers react to changing economic conditions, how consumers perceive the economy, and how their perceptions often differ from reality, using a representative panel of 150,000 US households to track what consumers say and do in real-time.

Leo is featured regularly in popular media such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, CNN, PBS NewsHour, NBC News, and CBS News. Leo has been a keynote speaker at several conferences around the world, including presentations with the Food Industry Association, World50, Unilever, Hershey, Coca-Cola, Post Consumer Brands, Reynolds Consumer Products, and many other consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies.

The Current State of the US Consumer and the US Economy

Inflation and its drivers

The Federal Reserve and interest rate policy

The labor market: which sectors are adding and shedding jobs

Consumer sentiment and what consumers are concerned about

Changes in what consumers are buying and where they’re shopping

How consumers are likely to react to policy changes

Tariffs and trade: How might higher tariffs and a trade war impact the US consumer

Immigration’s role in US production and consumption

Potential impacts of Artificial Intelligence on production and consumption

Demographics and Consumer Behavior: What’s Up with Gen Z and Young Millennials?

Demographics and Economic Waves: Gen Z and Young Millennials are aging into their prime earning and spending years

Implications as Gen Z overtakes Boomers in the workforce

Boomers: YOLO (You Only Live Once) — How Boomers are spending in retirement

Are Gen Z and Young Millennials really that different from older generations: Comparing consumption with older cohorts as Gen Z and Young Millennials start families and experience life transitions