JANET YELLEN TO ADDRESS TPM 2026

 



Monday, 2 March8:50 am - 9:30 am (PST)

Keynote Address: A Conversation with Former Treasury Secretary and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen



Janet L. Yellen served as secretary of the Treasury from 2021-2025. 


As the first woman to hold this position, she helped to craft the Biden administration’s pandemic  economic recovery program and promoted a strategy known as “modern supply-side economics” to boost medium-term growth and productivity in an inclusive and sustainable way. 


Dr. Yellen helped to stabilize US economic relations with China and craft the sanctions imposed on Russia following its brutal invasion of Ukraine. 


She also oversaw the preparation of the clean energy tax rules implementing the Inflation Reduction Act.  


During her tenure as Treasury Secretary, the US achieved a “soft landing” following the 2022-2023 inflationary surge. 


Unemployment declined to historically low levels, inflation subsided, and economic growth surpassed that of other advanced nations, with the Economist declaring the U.S. recovery the “envy of the world.” 


 In her earlier position as chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Dr. Yellen promoted recovery of the economy from the global financial crisis and oversaw a period of strong job growth and the start of monetary policy normalization. 


Under both the Obama and Trump administrations, Dr. Yellen’s leadership as Fed Chair helped sustain a period of economic prosperity in the US — the stock markets outperformed the rest of the world, inflation remained low and stable, and the unemployment rate declined. Under her watch, the US experienced the third-longest economic expansion in history. 


Her distinguished career at the Treasury and Federal Reserve included serving as vice chair of the Board of Governors (2010–2014) and president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (2004–2010). 


Previously, she was a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton, and an economics professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is a professor emeritus. 

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