Biography

David Rodziewicz is a senior commodity specialist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. His research focuses on energy economics, natural resource economics, and commodity finance. Rodziewicz is responsible for briefing the Kansas City Fed’s president – a member of the Federal Open Market Committee – on energy and commodity related issues. Prior to joining the Economic Research Department at the Bank in 2017, Rodziewicz was as an officer in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Commissioned Officer Corps, where he served as a deck watch officer in Alaska and database manager in Boulder. Earlier in his career, he worked in the financial services industry as a stock analyst, covering real estate investment trusts (REITs). Rodziewicz earned his M.S. in Mineral and Energy Economics from Colorado School of Mines in 2016 and earned a B.S. in Finance and Economics from University of Illinois in 2008.