Janet Yellen — treasury sec with roots in the Russian Empire
Janet Yellen is an American economist who served as Chair of the Federal Reserve (2014–2018) and became the 78th US Secretary of the Treasury in 2021 — the first woman to hold both offices. A leading expert on labour economics and macroeconomic policy, she has been one of the most consequential economic policymakers of the 21st century.
Tracing the roots — Suwałki
Her father Julius Yellen was a physician of Jewish descent whose family had emigrated from Suwałki (then Russian Empire, now Poland). Growing up in a Jewish immigrant household in Brooklyn, Yellen's intellectual seriousness and her career of public service carry the immigrant generation's faith in institutions and expertise.
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Suwałki. At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
A career defined by ambition
"Maximum employment is a broad and inclusive goal."