{"id":105115,"date":"2026-02-04T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105115\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T18:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:00:07","slug":"cleveland-fed-adds-3-pittsburgh-area-leaders-to-its-business-advisory-council-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105115\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Fed adds 3 Pittsburgh-area leaders to its business advisory council \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Cleveland Fed has appointed new members to its Southwest Pennsylvania\/Northern West Virginia advisory council as part of its strategy to gather on-the-ground economic intelligence from business and community leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">They are: Benjamin Bush, vice president, public affairs, Allegheny Conference on Community Development; F. Duffy Hanna, president, Howard Hanna Financial Services; and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls, president, Washington &amp; Jefferson College. They bring the number of members of the advisory council to 11. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cBy design, Cleveland Fed board and advisory council members come from different industries and geographies across our district,\u201d Beth Hammack, Cleveland Fed president and CEO, said via email. \u201dEach of them brings a unique, near-real-time perspective on how people who live and work in the district are experiencing the economy. These insights are crucial to ensure I and my team at the Cleveland Fed understand what\u2019s happening on the ground \u2014 before it shows up in the official data. This input from business and community leaders complements the hard data and informs the discussions I have with my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/01\/30\/cleveland-fed-appoints-three-advisory-council.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/01\/30\/cleveland-fed-appoints-three-advisory-council.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Fed has appointed new members to its Southwest Pennsylvania\/Northern West Virginia advisory council as part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[50806,50802,50803,50801,50804,73,19832,50805,75,74,50800],"class_list":["post-105115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-advisory-council","tag-business-advisory-council","tag-cleveland-fed","tag-northern-west-virginia","tag-pittsburg-harea","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-business","tag-pittsburgh-businesses","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-southwest-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}