Janet Yellen & George Akerlof's House

Janet Yellen is an American economist at the Brookings Institution who served as the Chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018, and as Vice Chair from 2010 to 2014. Previously, she was president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton; Federal Reserve Board Governor; and business professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business. On November 23, 2020, The Wall Street Journal reported that president-elect Joe Biden will nominate Yellen to serve as the United States Secretary of the Treasury. If confirmed, Yellen would become the first woman to hold that position and the first to hold all three of the most important positions of economic governance in the United States: chair of the Federal Reserve, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors and treasury secretary.

Her husband, George Akerlof is an American economist who is a university professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Koshland Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He won the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.