Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Jean Morisseau-Kuni is Community Affairs Specialist for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Assisting us for the first time with CampCEO, Kuni works with entrepreneurs to assist in understanding their personal and business financial environment. In her role as a community specialist, Kuni provides technical support and facilitates communication between banks and community organizations in St. Louis and southern Illinois.

Yuliya Demyanyk will soon join the Research Department as a senior research economist. She will start on December 29, 2008. Her research focuses on analysis of the subprime mortgage market, on the roles that financial intermediation and banking regulation play in the U.S. economy, and on analysis of financial integration in the United States as well as in the European Union. Dr. Demyanyk is currently an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. She has taught at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Houston. She has a PhD in economics from the University of Houston, an MA in economics from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Economic Education and Research Consortium (EERC), Ukraine, and an MA in physics from the National University of Odessa, Ukraine.

Gayle P.W. Jackson is President of Energy Global, Inc., a consulting firm which specializes in corporate development, diversification and government relations strategies for energy companies. From 2002 to 2004, Dr. Jackson served as Managing Director of FE Clean Energy Group, a global private equity management firm that invests in energy companies and projects in Central and East Europe, Latin America and Asia. Dr. Jackson is Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Mo., and serves on the Board of Ameren Corporation.

Robert G. Jones was named president and CEO of Old National Bancorp and a member of its board of directors in 2004. Previously he served for 25 years at KeyCorp, most recently as CEO of McDonald Investments Inc. He began his banking career in 1979 as a management associate at Society National Bank, which later merged with Key. Jones currently serves on the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis board of directors. He also has been named to the boards of the University of Evansville, Ashland University, Evansville Regional Business Council, The Economic Development Coalition of Southwest Indiana, Evansville Day School, Deaconess Hospital, Riley Children's Hospital, Youth Resources of Southwestern Indiana and Signature School Foundation. He chairs the Ronald McDonald House Capital Campaign and the Evansville ARC Capital Campaign. Jones is a member of the Superintendent's Business Council of the Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corp., a steering committee member for the Southern Indiana College Access Network, community advisory board member for the Junior League of Evansville and external advisory board member for the Evansville Business Journal. In addition Evansville Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel appointed him to lead a task force aimed at developing a strategic plan for economic development in the four-county area surrounding Evansville. Jones is a graduate of Ashland University.