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Journalists, publishers, scholars, teachers and preachers who shaped what Americans knew and believed.
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Alan Greenspan 1926–2026Scholars & Public IntellectualsChaired the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006 across several financial crises.
Janet Yellen b. 1946Scholars & Public IntellectualsFirst woman to chair the Federal Reserve and to serve as Treasury Secretary.
Jerome Powell b. 1953Scholars & Public IntellectualsFederal Reserve chair who steered monetary policy through the pandemic and the inflation surge that followed.
Paul Volcker 1927–2019Scholars & Public IntellectualsBroke 1970s inflation as Federal Reserve chairman through sustained high interest rates.
Ben Bernanke b. 1953Scholars & Public IntellectualsLed the Federal Reserve through the 2008 financial crisis and won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics.