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Janet Louise Yellen was born on the 13th of August 1946 in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Her father Julius worked as a family physician from their home while her mother Anna taught elementary school before becoming a stay-at-home parent.
Janet Yellen graduated summa cum laude from Brown University in 1967 before earning her doctorate from Yale University in 1971 with a dissertation titled Employment Output and Capital Accumulation in an Open Economy. She later joined Harvard University as assistant professor of economics in 1971 and became faculty at UC Berkeley in 1980.
Janet Yellen assumed office as Federal Reserve Board member on the 12th of August 1994 serving a full 14-year term. She became vice chair following Senate confirmation the 4th of October 2010 and led the Federal Reserve to increase key interest rates for the first time since 2006 on the 16th of December 2015.
President-elect Biden nominated Janet Yellen as Treasury Secretary on the 30th of November 2020 and the Senate confirmed her vote 84-15 on the 25th of January 2021. In April 2021 she proposed a global minimum corporate tax rate that Group Seven finance ministers agreed to reinstate at least 15% on the 5th of June 2021.
Janet Yellen's father Julius worked as a family physician from the ground floor of their home while her mother Anna taught elementary school before becoming a stay-at-home parent. The family had Polish Jewish ancestry and her father's relatives were deported or murdered during the Holocaust in Sokołów Podlaski.