Key facts
- President
- Barack Obama , Donald Trump
- Preceded by
- Janet Yellen
- Succeeded by
- Richard Clarida
- Prime minister
- Ariel Sharon , Ehud Olmert , Benjamin Netanyahu
- Managing director
- Michel Camdessus , Horst Köhler
- Born
- ( 1943-10-15 ) October 15, 1943, Mazabuka , Northern Rhodesia
- Died
- May 31, 2025 (2025-05-31) (aged 81), Lexington, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Spouse
- Rhoda Keet ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1965 ; died 2020 )
- Education
- London School of Economics ( BSc , MSc ), Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( PhD )
- Doctoral advisor
- Franklin M. Fisher
- Discipline
- Macroeconomics
- School or tradition
- New Keynesian economics
- Doctoral students
- Zvi Bodie , Isher Judge Ahluwalia , Frederic Mishkin , Steven M. Sheffrin , Olivier Blanchard , Ben Bernanke , Kazuo Ueda , David Hsieh , Kenneth D. West , Greg Mankiw , Jeffrey Miron , Mark Bils , David Romer , Ricardo J. Caballero , Michael Kuehlwein , D. Nathan Sheets , Ilan Goldfajn
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Stanley
- Family name
- Fischer
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Lusaka
- Place of death
- Lexington
- Occupation
- governor
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Languages spoken
- Hebrew
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Judaism
- Doctoral advisor
- Franklin M. Fisher
- Field of work
- economics of banking
- Official website
- www.stanleyfischer.com
- Image
- Stanley Fischer (14152693510).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1943-10-15
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- Econometric Society
- name in native language
- Stanley Fischer
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- Stanley Fischer
- date of death
- 2025-05-31
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Encyclopedic overview
Stanley Fischer (Hebrew: סטנלי פישר; October 15, 1943 – May 31, 2025) was an American and Israeli economist who served as the 20th vice chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2017. Fischer previously served as the 8th governor of the Bank of Israel from 2005 to 2013. Born in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), he held dual citizenship in Israel and the United States. He previously served as First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and as Chief Economist of the World Bank. On January 10, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Fischer to the position of Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve. On September 6, 2017, Fischer announced that he was resigning as vice-chair for personal reasons effective October 13, 2017. He was a senior advisor at BlackRock.
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