Gertler is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Economics at New York University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He received his PhD. at Stanford University. He has published widely in macroeconomics and monetary economics. Among his co-authors are former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and current Vice Chairman Richard Clarida. Gertler currently serves as a Co-Director (with Pete Klenow) of the NBER’s program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth and also as a consultant to the European Central Bank. He is also a past Co-Editor of the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Perspectives and the NBER Macro Annual. Among professional honors, Gertler is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2021, Gertler was awarded the BBVA Frontier of Knowledge Award, along with Bernanke, Nobuhiro Kiyotaki and John Moore.