WThe vice chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is the deputy head of the Federal Reserve, the central banking system of the United States. The vice chair shall preside at meetings of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, in absence, of the chair of the Federal Reserve.
WC. Canby Balderston was an American businessman who served as the Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve from 1955 to 1966.
WAlan Stuart Blinder is an American economist and the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University who served as the Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve from 1994 to 1996.
WRichard Harris Clarida is an American economist and Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve. He is the C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Columbia University and, from 2006 until September 2018, Global Strategic Advisor for PIMCO. He is notable for his contributions to dynamic stochastic general equilibrium theory and international monetary economics. He is a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and is a recipient of the Treasury Medal.
WFrederic Adrian Delano II was an American railroad president.
WRoger W. Ferguson Jr. is an American economist, who was Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve from 1999 to 2006, and is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association – College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA) having served since April, 2008. In June, 2016, Alphabet Inc. appointed Roger W. Ferguson Jr. to its board of directors.
WStanley Fischer is an Israeli American economist and former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve. Born in Northern Rhodesia, he holds dual citizenship in Israel and the United States. He served as governor of the Bank of Israel from 2005 to 2013. He previously served as chief economist at the World Bank. On January 10, 2014, United States President Barack Obama nominated Fischer to be Vice-Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Board of Governors. On September 6, 2017, Stanley Fischer announced that he was resigning as Vice-Chairman for personal reasons effective October 13, 2017.
WStephen S. Gardner was an American businessman who served as Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve from 1976 until his death.
WManuel Holman "Manley" Johnson Jr. is an American economist, who served as the Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve in the mid-1980s. Since 1990, he has been co-chairman and senior partner at Johnson Smick International, Inc., an investments, economic and political consulting firm. He has also authored or co-authored six books.
WDonald Lewis Kohn is an American economist who served as the former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve. He is considered a moderate dove on monetary policy. He retired after 40 years at the central bank in September, 2010 and currently serves on the Financial Policy Committee for the Bank of England and as a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
WPreston Martin was an American banker and public official best known as the Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve between 1982 and 1986.
WGeorge Wilder Mitchell was an American economist, who served as the Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve from May 1973 to February 1976. Before that he was a Federal Reserve Governor for 12 years and a long-time staffer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He was an early promoter of electronic banking.
WDavid Wiley Mullins Jr. was an American economist and former vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve. He also served as an assistant Secretary of the Treasury for domestic finance in the administration of United States President George H. W. Bush. Mullins left the Federal Reserve in 1994 to join the hedge fund Long Term Capital Management and remained in private finance following its collapse in 1998.
WEdmund Platt was a United States Representative from New York.
WRandal Keith Quarles is an American government official, private equity investor and attorney who has served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since 2017. He was the Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve for supervision from 2017 to 2021.
WRonald Ransom was an American businessman who served as the Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve from 1936 to 1947.
WAlice Mitchell Rivlin was an American economist and budget official. During her career, Dr. Rivlin served as Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve, Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, and founding Director of the Congressional Budget Office. She was the first woman to hold either role. Rivlin was an expert on the U.S. federal budget and macroeconomic policy. She was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and visiting professor at Georgetown University. Rivlin also co-chaired, with former Senator Pete Domenici, the Bipartisan Policy Center's Debt Reduction Task Force.
WFrederick Henry Schultz was an American businessman, politician, and central banker. He served as the Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve nominated by the U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Schultz also served as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives in 1969 and 1970.
WPaul Moritz Warburg was an American investment banker born in Germany, and an early advocate of the U.S. central bank system, who served as the first Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve.
WJanet Louise Yellen is an American economist, educator and government official who has served as the 78th United States secretary of the treasury since January 26, 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the 15th chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018. She is the first woman to hold either role. She is also a professor emerita at Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and formerly a distinguished fellow in residence at the Brookings Institution.