Jerome Powell
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Jerome Hayden "Jay" Powell is an American central banker and attorney who has been the 16th chair of the Federal Reserve since 2018. He was previously both a lawyer and investment banker in the private sector before entering public service.
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Jerome Powell is a United States citizen born in Washington, D.C., on February 4, 1953. He is a male lawyer, politician, and jurist who has served as the Chair of the Federal Reserve. A member of the Republican Party, he resides in Chevy Chase Village. Powell received his education at Princeton University and the Georgetown University Law Center. He speaks English.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1891
- Works
- 1
Top works
- A study of problem material in high school algebra
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields
· 1983 · cited 30,222x
- The Elements of Statistical Learning
· 2009 · cited 22,106x
- Greedy function approximation: A gradient boosting machine.
· 2001 · cited 20,430x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,495x
- Regularization Paths for Generalized Linear Models via Coordinate Descent
· 2010 · cited 13,862x
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Key facts
- President
- Donald Trump , Joe Biden , Donald Trump
- Deputy
- Richard Clarida , Lael Brainard , Philip Jefferson
- Preceded by
- Janet Yellen
- Succeeded by
- Kevin Warsh
- Nominated by
- Barack Obama
- Born
- Jerome Hayden Powell , ( 1953-02-04 ) February 4, 1953 (age 73) , Washington, D.C. , U.S.
- Party
- Republican
- Spouse
- Elissa Leonard ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. September 14, 1985</span>"}]]}'>1985 )
- Education
- Princeton University ( BA ), Georgetown University ( JD )
- Nickname
- Jay Powell
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Encyclopedic overview
Jerome Hayden "Jay" Powell (born February 4, 1953) is an American central banker and attorney who served as the 16th chair of the Federal Reserve from 2018 to 2026. He was previously both a lawyer and investment banker in the private sector before entering public service.
A native of Washington, D.C., Powell graduated from Princeton University and the Georgetown University Law Center. After working as an attorney for five years, he began a career in investment banking and private equity during the mid-1980s, eventually becoming a partner at the Carlyle Group in 1997. He left Carlyle in 2005 to launch Severn Capital Partners, a boutique private equity firm. He was a visiting scholar at the Bipartisan Policy Center from 2010 to 2012.
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