Marina Azzimonti is a senior economist and research advisor in the Research Department. Before joining the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond in November 2022, Azzimonti was a professor of economics at Stony Brook University. She earned her doctorate from the University of Rochester.

Azzimonti's main fields of study include macroeconomics, political economy, and international finance. She developed the Partisan Conflict Index, which tracks political disagreement among U.S. politicians and is updated monthly by the Real-Time Data Research Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. She currently serves as associate editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics, co-editor of the EconomicDynamics Newsletter, secretary for the Society for Economic Dynamics, and on the advisory board of the Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance at the University of California-Santa Barbara and the Minnesota Economics Big Data Institute.