What is Ben Bernanke doing now?
Ben Shalom Bernanke (born December 13, 1953) is an American economist who served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014. After leaving the Fed, Bernanke was named a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution. During his tenure as chairman, Bernanke oversaw the Federal Reserve’s response to the late-2000s financial crisis,…
Ben Shalom Bernanke (born December 13, 1953) is an American economist who served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014. After leaving the Fed, Bernanke was named a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution. During his tenure as chairman, Bernanke oversaw the Federal Reserve’s response to the late-2000s financial crisis, for which Bernanke was named Time Person of the Year in 2009.
Bernanke was a tenured professor at Princeton University and chaired the department of economics from 1996 to September 2002, when Bernanke took a leave of absence from the Federal Reserve. Bernanke received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2022, along with Douglas Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig, “for research on banks and financial crises.”
Bernanke helped roll the Torah scrolls in his local synagogue as a teenager in the 1960s. Although Bernanke keeps his beliefs private, his friend Mark Gertler, chairman of the economics department at New York University, says they are “embedded in who Bernanke (Bernanke) is.” When Bernanke was in his freshman year at Harvard, fellow Dillon native Kenneth Manning took him to Brookline for Rosh Hashanah services.
What is Ben Bernanke doing now?
Mr. Bernanke left the Fed in 2014 and is now a distinguished senior fellow at Washington’s Brookings Institution.
