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13 January 2011 By Martin Hutchinson

This year s voting FOMC includes a trio forming a stronger hawkish group than last year s lonely Thomas Hoenig. Rocking the boat on the current round of quantitative easing is unlikely. But they could voice their differences with the U.S. central bank chairman on interest rates.

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The 11 presidents of the regional U.S. Federal Reserve Banks other than New York rotate through the Federal Open Market Committee. Four regional bank presidents sit on the committee each year, together with the chairman, currently Ben Bernanke, the six other Fed governors and the president of the New York Fed.

In 2011, the FOMC's regional members will be Charles Evans, president of the Chicago Fed, Richard Fisher, president of the Dallas Fed, Narayana Kocherlakota, president of the Minneapolis Fed and Charles Plosser, president of the Philadelphia Fed. The other regional presidents attend FOMC meetings and participate in discussions but do not vote.

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