Ben Bernanke

Ben Bernanke is an American economist born in 1953 in Augusta, Georgia. He served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014, overseeing the central bank's response to the 2008 financial crisis. Before his Fed role, he was a tenured professor at Princeton University and chaired its economics department from 1996 to 2002. He also served as chairman of President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers in 2005-2006. After leaving the Federal Reserve, Bernanke joined the Brookings Institution as a distinguished fellow.