Ben S. Bernanke is a distinguished senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. From February 2006 through January 2014, he was chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, having been appointed to that position by both Presidents Bush and Obama. In 2022, Dr. Bernanke was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on banks and financial crises.
Bernanke was chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, from June 2005 to January 2006. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2002 to 2005. Before his public service he taught economics at Stanford, Princeton, and Harvard. During his time at the Federal Reserve, he spoke at Cato’s Annual Monetary Conference in 2004 and 2007.