- Born
- Birth nameBen Shalom Bernanke
- Nickname
- Helicopter Ben
- Ben Bernanke was born on December 13, 1953 in Augusta, Georgia, USA. He has been married to Anna Friedmann since May 29, 1978. They have two children.
- SpouseAnna Friedmann(May 29, 1978 - present) (2 children)
- Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve System ("the Fed"), 1 February 2006 - present.
- Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, 2005-2006.
- Voted Time magazine's 2009 "Person of the Year" in the double issue (Dec. 28, 2009 - Jan. 4, 2010).
- Co-laureate of the 2022 Nobel Prize in economics, with Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig.
- I have some frustration about the fact that I would often hear different things in a Congressman's office than what I would hear in testimony. It was kind of 'Professor Smith Goes to Washington'.
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