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Born Dec 13, 1953 · Augusta, Georgia, U.S.
Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, Adam Smith Award, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Ben Shalom Bernanke is an American economist who served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014. After leaving the Federal Reserve, he was appointed a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution.