Chair of the US Federal Reserve

Jewish recipients of the Chair of the US Federal Reserve documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 31% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.

31%of all recipients are Jewish

5 documented recipients

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Eugene Meyer1930

Chaired the Federal Reserve (1930–33), became the World Bank's first president (1946), and rebuilt The Washington Post

Source: Wikipedia; JTA (Alsatian-Jewish father; mother the daughter of a rabbi)

Arthur Burns1970

Chaired the Federal Reserve (1970–78) after long leadership of the NBER and pioneering work on business cycles; later US ambassador to West Germany

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Economists

Alan Greenspan1926

Economist who chaired the U.S. Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Economics

Ben Bernanke2006

Chaired the Federal Reserve through the 2008 crisis (2006–14); 2022 Nobel laureate in economics for work on banks and financial crises

Source: Nobel Prize Economics 2022

Janet Yellen2014

First woman to chair the Federal Reserve (2014–18) — and first person to have led the Fed, the Treasury and the Council of Economic Advisers

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Economists