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Ben S. Bernanke is a Distinguished Fellow in residence with the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2002 to 2005.

From 1994 to 1996, Dr. Bernanke was the Class of 1926 professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University.

nachfolgerin bernanke biography

in economics in 1979 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Before becoming a member of the Board, Dr. Bernanke was the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and Chair of the Economics Department at Princeton University (1996-2002). Bernanke has published many articles on a wide variety of economic issues, including monetary policy and macroeconomics, and he is the author of several scholarly books and two textbooks.

He was the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and chair of the Economics Department at the university from 1996 to 2002.

Biography of Dr. Ben S. Bernanke

Ben S. Bernanke was sworn-in on June 21, 2005 as Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers.

He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Sloan Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bernanke was confirmed for a second term as chairman on January 28, 2010, afterbeingrenominated by PresidentBarack Obama.

Born
Dec 13, 1953
Augusta
Also known as
  • Ben Shalom Bernanke
  • Ben S.

    Bernanke

  • Ben S Bernanke
  • Ben S Bernake
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Religion
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Profession
Education
  • PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Economics
    ( - 1979)
  • Harvard University
  • Harvard College
  • Dillon High School
Employment
  • Chair of the Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Bank
    (2006/02/01 - 2014/02/03)
  • Brookings Institution
    (2014/02/03 - )
Lived in
  • South Carolina
  • Augusta
  • Dillon

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BeforebecomingFederalReserve chairman, Bernanke was a tenuredprofessor at PrincetonUniversity and chaired the department of economicsthere from 1996 to September 2002, when he went on publicservice leave.

From 2002 until 2005, he was a member of the Board of Governors of the FederalReserve System, proposed the Bernanke Doctrine, and firstdiscussed "the Great Moderation" — the theory that traditionalbusinesscycles have declined in volatility in recentdecadesthroughstructuralchanges that have occurred in the international economy, particularlyincreases in the economicstability of developing nations, diminishing the influence of macroeconomic policy.

Bernanke then served as chairman of PresidentGeorge W.

Bush's Council of EconomicAdvisersbeforePresident Bush appointed him on February 1, 2006, to be chairman of the UnitedStatesFederal Reserve. Dr. Bernanke had been a professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton since 1985. Dr. 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's Business Cycle Dating Committee.

Prior to his appointment to the Council, Dr. Bernanke served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Dr. From February 2006 through January 2014, he was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, having been appointed to that position by both Presidents Bush and Obama.

Bernanke and his wife, Anna, have two children.

Who is Ben Bernanke?

Ben ShalomBernanke is an Americaneconomist at the BrookingsInstitution who served two terms as chairman of the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the UnitedStates from 2006 to 2014. During his tenure as chairman, Bernankeoversaw the Federal Reserve's response to the late-2000s financial crisis.

Dr. Bernanke also served as Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee, the System's principal monetary policymaking body.

Before his appointment as chairman, Dr. Bernanke was chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, from June 2005 to January 2006. He received a B.A. in economics in 1975 from Harvard University (summa cum laude) and a Ph.D.

Bernanke was born on December 13, 1953, in Augusta, Georgia.

Biography - Dr. Ben S. Bernanke

Dr. Dr. 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.

Dr. Dr. Bernanke had served as a Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton since 1985.

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