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Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor Emeritus of Business Administration
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Janet L. Yellen is the Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor Emeritus of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. On January 26, 2021, Yellen was sworn in as the 78th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Yellen served as Chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018, Vice Chair from 2010 to 2014, and Chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1997 to 1999. She is the first person in American history to have led the White House Council of Economic Advisors, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury Department.

An economist by training, Yellen joined the Berkeley Haas faculty in 1980. For the next 26 years, she taught thousands of MBA and undergraduate students in macroeconomics, economics, and trade. Her academic research focuses on unemployment and labor markets, monetary and fiscal policies, and international trade. Beloved by her students, she earned the school’s highest teaching honor, the Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, in 1985 and 1988.

Read Yellen’s full profile on the U.S. Treasury website.

Expertise and Research Interests

Unemployment and labor markets

Monetary and fiscal policies

International trade and investment policy

The Fabulous Decade: Macroeconomic Lessons from the 1990s, with Alan Binder. New York: The Century Foundation Press, 2001.

“Trends in Income Inequality and Policy Responses.” Looking Ahead (October 1997).

“The Inequality Paradox: Growth of Income Disparity.” National Policy Association (1998).

“The Continuing Importance of Trade Liberalization.” Business Economics (1998).

“Monetary Policy: Goals and Strategy.” Business Economics (July 1996).

“An Analysis of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing in the United States,” with George Akerlof and Michael Katz. Journal of Economics (May 1996).

“East Germany In From the Cold: The Economic Aftermath of Currency Union,” with George Akerlof, Andrew Rose, and Helga Hessenius. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1991:1.

“How Large Are the Losses from Rule of Thumb Behavior in Models of the Business Cycle?” with George Akerlof, in Money, Macroeconomics and Economic Policy: Essays in Honor of James Tobin, edited by Willima Brainard, William Nordhaus, and Harold Watts, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991.

At Haas since 1980

2021 – present, Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Department of the Treasury

2018 – 2020, Distinguished Fellow in Residence – Economic Studies, The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Brookings Institution

2014 – 2018, Chair, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

2010 – 2014, Vice Chair, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

2004 – 2010, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

2006 – present, Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor Emeritus of Business Administration

1999 – 2006, Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Economics

1985 – 2006, Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

1997 – 1999, Chair, President’s Council of Economic Advisors

1994 – 1997, Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

1982 – 1985, Associate Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

1980 – 1982, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

1978 – 1980, Lecturer, London School of Economics and Political Science

1977 – 1978, Economist, Division of International Finance, Trade and Financial Studies Section, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

1971 – 1976, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University

1974, Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Vice President, Western Economics Association

Fellow, Yale Corporation

Member, National Academy of Sciences Panel on Ensuring the Best Presidential Science and Technology Appointments

Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

Advisory Board, Center for International Political Economy

Advisory Board, Brookings Panel on Economic Activity

Chair: Economic Policy Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

President’s Interagency Committee on Women’s Business Enterprise

Member and adviser: Brookings Panel on Economic Activity (senior advisor); Advisor Panel in Economics, National Science Foundation

Advisor: Congressional Budget Office

Research fellow: Yale University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Distinguished Fellow, American Economic Association

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2001

Fellow, Yale Corporation, 2000

Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree, Bard College, May 2000

Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree, Brown University, 1998

Maria and Sidney Rolfe Award for National Economic Service, Women’s Economic Roundtable, 1997

Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, Yale University, 1997

Honorary Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1967

Guggenheim Fellow, 1986-1987

Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching (Evening MBA Program), 1988

Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching (MBA Program), 1985

Facts and Figures about Janet Yellen

Angeleno Group Taps Sustainable Forestry Pioneer Dr. David Brand as Operating Partner, Los Angeles Times, 01/21/2026

‘Pivotal Moment’ for Angeleno Group, Los Angeles Business Journal, 12/08/2025

Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege, The New York Times, 02/10/2025

China’s stimulus measures not enough, Yellen and IMF chief economist say, Reuters, 10/22/2024

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stops at In-N-Out, Chez Panisse during APEC, San Francisco Chronicle, 11/14/2023

Can we stop corporations from hiding their profits overseas?, The New Yorker, 06/22/2021

Former UC Berkeley faculty Jennifer Granholm confirmed as energy secretary, Daily Californian, 02/25/2021

Janet Yellen is confirmed as the first female Treasury secretary in US history, CNN, 01/25/2021

Make America California again? That’s Biden’s plan, Los Angeles Times, 01/19/2021

Former colleague of Janet Yellen reacts to her historic nomination, KTVU, 11/30/2020

Biden appointees have a lot of ties to startup and venture spheres, Crunchbase, 11/27/2020

Janet Yellen: a Fed veteran ready to take the wheel at the Treasury, Financial Times, 11/27/2020

Janet Yellen, Biden’s Treasury nominee, has long thought about Bay Area’s challenges, The San Francisco Chronicle, 11/24/2020

Meet the women being considered for Treasury Secretary, Forbes, 11/16/2020

‘Most efficient vehicle’: UC Berkeley professors create California Rebuilding Fund for small businesses, Daily Californian, 09/09/2020

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