– Ben Bernanke's (new would-be US Fed chief) file

Just for the record:

Education:

BA in economics, 1975, Harvard University; PhD in economics, 1979, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Experience:

• June 2005 to present, chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.

• 2002-2005, member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

• 1996-2002, professor and chairman of the Economics Department at Princeton University.

• 1985-2002, economics professor at Princeton University.

Family:

Wife Anna; two children.