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Janet Yellen

Janet Yellen

Official portrait, 2021

In office
January 26, 2021 – January 20, 2025
PresidentJoe Biden
DeputyWally Adeyemo
Preceded bySteven Mnuchin
Succeeded byScott Bessent
In office
February 3, 2014 – February 3, 2018
PresidentBarack Obama
Donald Trump
DeputyStanley Fischer
Preceded byBen Bernanke
Succeeded byJerome Powell
In office
October 4, 2010 – February 3, 2014
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byDonald Kohn
Succeeded byStanley Fischer
In office
October 4, 2010 – February 3, 2018
PresidentBarack Obama
Donald Trump
Preceded byMark W. Olson
Succeeded byLisa D. Cook
In office
August 12, 1994 – February 17, 1997
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byWayne Angell
Succeeded byEdward Gramlich
In office
June 14, 2004 – October 4, 2010
Preceded byRobert T. Parry
Succeeded byJohn C. Williams
In office
February 18, 1997 – August 3, 1999
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded

Janet L. Yellen

Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor Emeritus of Business Administration
Economic Analysis & Policy


About

Janet L. Yellen is the Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor Emeritus of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. On January 26, 2021, Yellen was sworn in as the 78th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Yellen served as Chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018, Vice Chair from 2010 to 2014, and Chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1997 to 1999. She is the first person in American history to have led the White House Council of Economic Advisors, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury Department.

An economist by training, Yellen joined the Berkeley Haas faculty in 1980. For the next 26 years, she taught thousands of MBA and undergraduate students in macroeconomics, economics, and trade. Her academic research focuses on unemployment and labor markets, monetary and fiscal policies, and international trade. Beloved by her students, she earned

Dr. Janet Yellen, confirmed in January 2021 as the first female Treasury Secretary of the United States, is no stranger to breaking glass ceilings. An economist with a lifelong commitment to making the American economy one that allows all workers to succeed, she was also the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve and the first person in history to be in charge of the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and the White House Council of Economic Advisors. No wonder she had a rap song written about her in the mode of those written for the musical Hamilton! 

Janet Louise Yellen was born on August 13, 1946, in Brooklyn, New York. She was the younger child of her father, Julius Yellen, who was a family doctor, and her mother Anna Ruth, who was an elementary school teacher. Most elite magnet public high schools were not open to girls when Yellen was growing up, but Yellen excelled at her local Fort Hamilton High School, where she was the editor of the school paper and valedictorian. Yellen has discussed how growing up in a working-class neighborhood and seeing people who could barel

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