Ben S. Bernanke

Ben S. Bernanke is an American economist who chaired the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014 and led its response to the 2008 financial crisis. Before that he chaired Princeton's economics department, served on the Fed's board of governors and chaired President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers. He shared the 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for research on banks and financial crises and is a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution.