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.
5 documented recipients
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
Economist who showed how bank failures deepened and prolonged the Great Depression; chaired the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014; Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2022
Source: Wikipedia — Ben Bernanke / NobelPrize.org — Ben Bernanke, Biographical
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