Susan M. Collins (born 1958/1959)[1] is an American economist who has served as the 14th president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston since July 1, 2022.

[2] Collins previously served as the 16th provost and executive vice president for academic affairs of the University of Michigan from 2020 to 2022.

[3] Collins is a naturalized U.S. citizen of Jamaican descent, born in Scotland, United Kingdom, and raised in New York City.

The students disagreed, claiming that the strike directly related to the university's failure to provide a safe working environment which was required by the contract it agreed to only months prior.

[12] In a publicly broadcast question and answer session on September 15, 2020, Collins said of the administration's pandemic response: “We have not done nearly as well as we needed to.”[13] In February 2022, Collins was selected to serve as president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, becoming the first woman of color to lead any of the 12 regional Reserve Banks.