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Ben Bernanke Biography
POSTED: 8:01 am PST November 15, 2005
UPDATED: 12:36 pm PST January 30, 2006
- Name: Ben Bernanke
- Birth Date: Dec. 13, 1953, in Augusta, Ga.
- Education: B.A. in economics, 1975, Harvard University: Ph.D. in economics, 1979, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Experience: June 2005 -- present, chairman, President's Council of Economic Advisers; 2002-05, member, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; 1996-2002, professor and chairman of the Economics Department at Princeton University; 1985-2002, economics professor, Princeton University
- Family: Wife, Anna; two children
- Quote: "If I'm confirmed to this position, my first priority will be to maintain continuity with the policies and policy strategies established during the Greenspan years." -- Oct. 24, 2005, when President George W. Bush nominated Bernanke to succeed Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve.
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