Janet Yellen

Described as

78th United States Secretary of the Treasury

Other names

Janet Louise Yellen, Janet L. Yellen, Janet L Yellen

Born

August 13, 1946 · 3 references

Born in

Brooklyn

Citizen of

United States

Occupation

economist · 1 reference; professor · 2 references; banker; politician; finance minister · 1 reference

Positions held

Chair of the Federal Reserve (2014–2018); president (2004–2010); chairperson (1997–1999); university teacher (2 times) (1971–); lecturer (1978–1980); economist (1977–1978); United States Secretary of the Treasury (2021–2025) · 1 reference; Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (1997–1999) · 1 reference

Political party

Democratic Party

Worked for

Harvard University; London School of Economics and Political Science; Federal Reserve System; University of California, Berkeley · 1 reference

Education

Yale University (1971); Pembroke College in Brown University (1967); Fort Hamilton High School · 1 reference; Brown University · 1 reference

Member of

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1994–1997); Western Economic Association International; Federal Open Market Committee (2009); American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Group of Thirty · 1 reference; Econometric Society (2014–) · 1 reference

Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship (1986) · 1 reference; Wilbur Cross Medal (1997) · 1 reference; honorary doctorate from Brown University (1998) · 1 reference; honorary doctorate from Bard College (2000) · 1 reference; 50 Most Influential (2012); Adam Smith Award (2010) · 1 reference; Elizabeth Blackwell Award (2015) · 1 reference; Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association (2012) · 1 reference; Fellow of the Econometric Society (2014) · 1 reference; Radcliffe Medal (2016) · 1 reference; Global Citizen Awards (2023) · 1 reference

Spouse

George Akerlof · 1 reference

Lived in

Brooklyn

Website

https://home.treasury.gov/about/general-information/officials/janet-yellen

Wikipedias with a page

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Wikidata item Q263725 (wikidata.org/wiki/Q263725), public domain (CC0). Copied November 13, 2026.

Janet Louise Yellen (born August 13, 1946) is an American economist who served as the 78th United States secretary of the treasury from 2021 to 2025 and as the 15th chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018. She was the first woman to hold either position, and has also led the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Yellen is professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where she joined the faculty in 1980 and held the Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen professorship in business administration and economics.
Born and raised in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Yellen graduated from Brown University in 1967 and earned a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1971. She taught as an assistant professor at Harvard University from 1971 to 1976, was a staff economist for the Federal Reserve Board from 1977 to 1978, and was a faculty member at the London School of Economics from 1978 to 1980. Yellen is professor emeritus at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has been a faculty member since 1980 and became the Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Economics.
Yellen served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 1994 to 1997 and was nominated to the position by President Bill Clinton, who then named her chair of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1997 to 1999. She subsequently returned to academia, before serving as president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco from 2004 until 2010. Afterward, President Barack Obama chose her to replace Donald Kohn as the vice chair of the Federal Reserve from 2010 to 2014 before nominating her to succeed Ben Bernanke as chair of the Federal Reserve three years later. She was succeeded by Jerome Powell after President Donald Trump declined to renominate her for a second term. Following her departure from the Federal Reserve, Yellen joined the Brookings Institution as a distinguished fellow in residence from 2018 until 2020, when she again went into public service.
On November 30, 2020, President-elect Joe Biden nominated Yellen to serve as secretary of the treasury; she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on January 25, 2021, and was sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris the following day.

Born, in its opening lines

August 13, 1946

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