Lael Brainard

Member, Federal Reserve Board; Nominee as vice chair

November 22, 2021 Nominees, The Fed 0

INFO, BACKGROUND ON LAEL BRAINARD

BIRTH DATE
POSITION	Member, Federal Reserve Board (confirmed by Senate: June 2014); nominated as vice chair, Nov. 22, 2021
EDUCATION	B.A. Wesleyan University (1983) M.S., Ph.D., Harvard University (1989)
EXPERIENCE	Government: 2014 to present: member, Federal Reserve Board; 2010-13: undersecretary of the Treasury; 2009, counselor to the Treasury Secretary. (Previously served as deputy national economic adviser for President Bill Clinton (D)) Other 2001-08: vice president and founding director, the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution. 1990-96; assistant and associate professor of applied economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management

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