Ben Bernanke
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Ben Bernanke was sworn in on Feb. 1, 2006 as chairman and a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Bernanke also serves as chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed's principal monetary policymaking body. He was appointed as a member of the Board to a full 14-year term, which expires Jan. 31, 2020, and to a four-year term as chairman, which expires Jan. 31, 2010.
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Before his appointment as chairman, Bernanke served as chairman for the President's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) from June 2005 to January 2006. Prior to his appointment to the Council, Bernanke served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Background
Bernanke was the chair of the economics department and Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton (1996-2002). He also served as a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton starting in the mid 1980s. He's published articles on economic issues including monetary policy and macroeconomics, and is the author of several scholarly books and two textbooks.
Bernanke has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Sloan Fellowship, and he's a fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bernanke served as the director of the Monetary Economics Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and as a member of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee. Bernanke's work with civic and professional groups includes having served two terms as a member of the Montgomery Township (N.J.) Board of Education.[1]
Bernanke and his wife, Anna, have two children.[2]
References
- ↑ "The Education of Ben Bernanke". The New York Times. Retrieved on Apr. 7, 2008.
- ↑ Board Members: Ben S. Bernanke. Federal Reserve. Retrieved on January 26, 2008.
