Dr. Gus Faucher, Chief Economist, PNC Financial Services

Augustine (Gus) Faucher is senior vice president and chief economist of The PNC Financial Services Group, serving as the principal spokesperson on economic issues. He joined PNC in 2011 as a senior macroeconomist after a decade at Moody’s Analytics, where he led U.S. economic modeling, produced economic outlook publications, and analyzed fiscal, monetary, and regional trends. Earlier, he worked at the U.S. Treasury Department and taught at the University of Illinois. He was promoted to senior vice president in 2015, deputy chief economist in 2016, and chief economist in 2017.

Faucher is widely quoted in major media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNBC, and CNN, and appears frequently on NPR and Marketplace. He serves on the boards of The Economic Club of Pittsburgh and Veterans Place of Washington Boulevard and is a member of the United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania’s Tocqueville Committee. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in economics from Cornell University.