About Lael
Lael Brainard is an American economist born in January 1962 in Hamburg, West Germany. She served as director of the National Economic Council from February 2023 to January 2025. Previously, she was vice chair of the Federal Reserve from May 2022 to February 2023, and a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from June 2014 to February 2023. She held the position of under secretary of the Treasury for international affairs from April 2010 to November 2013.
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- director of the White House National Economic Council
- Federal Reserve vice chair
- Treasury under secretary for international affairs
- deputy national economic advisor in Clinton administration
- Federal Reserve Board governor
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