Janet Yellen
Janet Yellen served as the 78th United States Secretary of the Treasury from 2021-2025. She previously served as Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2014-2018, and she was chair of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1997 to 1999 under President Clinton. In addition, she served as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, as well as a member and as vice chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System before her appointment as chair.
Yellen graduated from Brown University with a degree in economics in 1967 and received her doctorate in economics from Yale University in 1971. She was an assistant professor at Harvard University for five years, going on to work for the Board of Governors, before joining the faculty of the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley, where she has been a faculty member since 1980. She has also served as a fellow of the Yale Corporation.
The Salata Institute
The Salata Institute supports interdisciplinary research that leads to real-world action, including high-risk/high-reward projects by researchers already working in the climate area and new endeavors that make it easier for Harvard scholars, who have not worked on climate problems, to do so. Faculty interested in the Climate Research Clusters program should note an upcoming deadline for concepts on April 1, 2024.