Ben shalom bernanke biography

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    Ben Bernanke

    American economist (born 1953)

    Ben Bernanke

    Bernanke in 2008

    In office
    February 1, 2006 – January 31, 2014
    PresidentGeorge W. Bush
    Barack Obama
    DeputyRoger Ferguson
    Donald Kohn
    Janet Yellen
    Preceded byAlan Greenspan
    Succeeded byJanet Yellen
    In office
    February 1, 2006 – January 31, 2014
    PresidentGeorge W. Bush
    Barack Obama
    Preceded byAlan Greenspan
    Succeeded byStanley Fischer
    In office
    July 31, 2002 – June 21, 2005
    PresidentGeorge W. Bush
    Preceded byEdward W. Kelley Jr.
    Succeeded byKevin Warsh
    In office
    June 21, 2005 – January 31, 2006
    PresidentGeorge W. Bush
    Preceded byHarvey Rosen
    Succeeded byEdward Lazear
    Born

    Ben Shalom Bernanke


    (1953-12-13) December 13, 1953 (age 71)
    Augusta, Georgia, U.S.
    Political partyIndependent (2015 or earlier–present)
    Other political
    affiliations    		Republican (before 2015 or earlier)

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    Bernanke, Ben

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    Chairman of the Federal Reserve

    B orn Benjamin S. Bernanke, December 13, 1953, in Augusta, GA; son of Philip (a pharmacist and theater manager) and Edna (a teacher) Bernanke; married Anna Friedmann, May 29, 1978; children: Alyssa, Joel. Education:Harvard University, B.A., 1975; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D., 1979.

    Addresses:Office—c/o Federal Reserve Board, 20th St. and Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 20551.

    Career

    A ssistant professor of economics, Stanford University, 1979-83; associate professor of economics, Stanford University, 1983-85; professor of economics and public affairs, Princeton University, 1985-96; Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck professor of economics and public affairs and chair of the economics department, Princeton University, 1996-2002; served on the Federal Reserve System’s Board of Governors, 2002-05; chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, 2005-06; Cha

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    Ben Bernanke

    Ben Shalom Bernanke is a Jewish American who was the 14th Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve and shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in economics.

    Bernanke (born December 13, 1953) was born in Georgia and raised in South Carolina, where his family attended the Ohav Shalom local synagogue. As a young child, Bernanke learned Hebrew from his maternal grandfather Harold Friedman, a professional chazzan, shochet, and Hebrew teacher. Bernanke later received a B.A. in economics in 1975 from Harvard University (summa cum laude) and a Ph.D. in economics in 1979 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

    From 1979 to 1985, Bernanke was a Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. His teaching career also included serving as a Visiting Professor of Economics at New York University (1993) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1989-90).

    From 1994 to 1996, Bernanke was the Class of 1926 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs