Central Bankers:Jannet Yellen
Early Life and Education Born in 1946 in Brooklyn, New York, Janet Yellen is currently serving as chairman of Federal Reserve and is also the first woman to hold this position. Being a bright and intelligent student right from the school days, she was elected as editor- in-chief of her school newspaper and became valedictorian by the time she graduated from school in 1963. She then went on to study economics at Brown University, where she earned her bachelor degree in Economics in 1967. Thereafter, she enrolled at Yale University for her doctorate in economics, which she completed in ...
