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Janet L. Yellen

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


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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

Janet Yellen

American economist (born 1946)

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 Williams
In office
February 18, 1997 – August 3, 1999
Presid

Janet L. Yellen was appointed Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) by President Clinton and confirmed on February 13, 1997. Dr. Yellen previously served as a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. She was appointed to that position by President Clinton in February 1994.

Since becoming a member of the Federal Reserve Board, Dr. Yellen has been on leave from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, where she has taught since 1980 and where she was the Bernard T. Rocca, Jr. Professor of International Business and Trade. She also served on the Panel of Economic Advisers for the Congressional Budget Office and as senior adviser to the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity.

Dr. Yellen was Assistant Professor at Harvard University from 1971-1976. She also served as an economist with the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors from 1977-1978, specializing on issues of international trade and finance, including stabilization of international currency exchange rates.

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