Everything You Need to Know About Janet Yellen

Economic Policy Journal

Janet Yellen is currently the Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Previously, she was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton, and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.  

She was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Anna (née Blumenthal) and Julius Yellen, a doctor, on August 13 1946.

Below is a list of all the poistions she has held:

• 2010–present Vice Chairwoman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System
• 2004–2010 President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
• 1997–1999 Chairwoman, President’s Council of Economic Advisors
• 1994–1997 Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
• 1985–present Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
• 1982–1985 Associate Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
• 1980–1982 Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
• 1978–1980 Lecturer, London School of Economics and Political Science
• 1977–1978 Economist, Division of International Finance, Trade and Financial Studies Section, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
• 1971–1976 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University
• 1974 Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

She is married to, and has co-authored a number of papers with, Nobel Prize-winning economistGeorge Akerlof, whom she met in the fall of 1977 when they were both economists at the Fed board. They married the following June and left the Fed to teach at the London School of Economics. Their only child, now a university economics professor, knew he wanted to go into economics by the time he was 13, according to CNBC.

2008

• June 19 – Fed’s Yellen Sees Signs of Recovery, But Conditions Not Normal
• July 7 – Yellen, Repeat Yellen, Nails It
• Oct. 30 – Apparently SF Fed President Janet Yellen Doesn’t Believe in Stagflation

2009

• April 8 – Yellen: Fed Talking to Congress About Issuing Its Own Debt
• June 23 – Janet Yellen as Fed Chairperson?
• July 1 – Does Janet Yellen Want Be Ben Bernanke’s Replacement?
• July 31 – Yellen Becomes Inflation Denier
• Sept. 15 – Is Janet Yellen Sleeping at Fed Meetings?

• May 16 – Will Janet Yellen Become the Next Fed Chair?
• July 24 – Larry Summers Over Janet Yellen as Next Fed Chairman?
• July 25 – Crony Larry Summers vs. Janet Yellen
• July 29 – Alan Blinder: Janet Yellen Would Be a Mad Money Printer as Fed Chairman
• Aug. 8 – Janet Yellen: “A Wise and Humane Policy Is Occasionally to Let Inflation Rise”
• Aug. 8 – Stiglitz: My Former Sudent, Janet Yellen, for Fed Head
• Aug. 21 – Former Ron Paul Adviser Says Obama Should Tap Janet Yellen For Fed Chair
• Aug. 27 – Janet Yellen’s Sticky Inflation Hedge
• Aug. 28 – Fed’s Janet Yellen: Debt Free Multi-Millionaire
• Sept. 11 – The Truth About Janet Yellen’s Forecasting Record
• Sept. 16 – Janet Yellen On The Financial Crisis: “I Didn’t See Any Of That Coming Until It Happened”
• Sept. 17 – Janet Yellen Spotted in NYC at 92nd and Third
• Sept. 17 – Janet Yellen Reminds Me of My Mother and What That Suggests to Me About Yellen as a Fed Chair
• Sept. 18 – Ron Paul on the Fed, Janet Yellen and the Debt Ceiling
• Sept. 19 – White House Signals “Yale School” Yellen Will Be Nominee for Fed Chief
• Sept. 20 – Stockman: Yellen will be just as bad as Bernanke if not worse than even Greenspan
• Sept. 21 – Further Indication Yellen Will Be the Next Fed Chair

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