Janet L. Yellen '71 Ph.D.
Berkeley, California
Janet L. Yellen became President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco in June 2004. Prior to joining the Bank she was Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor of Business and Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. Upon receiving her Ph.D. in economics from Yale, she taught at Harvard University and the London School of Economics before joining the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley in 1980. From 1997 to 1999 she chaired President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, and she was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1994 to 1997.
Ms. Yellen was awarded the Yale Graduate School Alumni Association's Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal in 1997, honorary doctorates from Brown University and Bard College, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Women's Economic Round Table award for national service. She was elected Alumni Fellow in 2000.
