Insiders: Trumps Fedchef lär godkännas av senaten

Janet Louise Yellen, född 13 augusti 1946 i Brooklyn i New York, är en amerikansk nationalekonom och professor. Hon är sedan år 2014 ordförande i USA:s centralbank Federal Reserve System. 2010 blev Yellen vice ordförande i Federal Reserve System och nominerades i oktober 2013 till att efterträda Ben Bernanke på posten som ordförande för banken. 3 februari 2014 svors hon in och blev då den första kvinnan någonsin på posten och den första demokraten på 25 år. Yellen är professor emerita vid Berkeleyuniversitetet och har undervisat vid Harvard och på London School of Economics. Hon har tidigare varit chef för Federal Reserve i San Francisco och var under 1990-talet rådgivare i Vita huset under den dåvarande president Clinton. Janet Yellen är gift med nationalekonomen George Akerlof som vann Nobelpriset i ekonomi 2001. Tillsammans har de sonen Robert som undervisar i ekonomi vid University of Warwick i England.

Jerome Hayden "Jay" Powell (born February 1953) is a former investment banker who is currently a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the governing board of the US Federal Reserve. He took office on May 25, 2012, to fill an unexpired term. He was reappointed and sworn in on June 16, 2014, for a term ending January 31, 2028.

John Brian Taylor (born December 8, 1946) is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Born in Yonkers, New York, he graduated from Shady Side Academy and earned his A.B. from Princeton University in 1968 and Ph.D. from Stanford in 1973, both in economics. He taught at Columbia University from 1973–1980 and the Woodrow Wilson School and Economics Department of Princeton University from 1980–1984 before returning to Stanford. He has received several teaching prizes and teaches Stanford's introductory economics course as well as Ph.D. courses in monetary economics. In research published in 1979 and 1980 he developed a model of price and wage setting—called the staggered contract model—which served as an underpinning of a new class of empirical models with rational expectations and sticky prices—sometimes called new Keynesian models. In a 1993 paper he proposed the Taylor rule, intended as a recommendation about how nominal interest rates should be determined, which then became a rough summary of how central banks actually do set them. He has been active in public policy, serving as the Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs during the first term of the George W. Bush Administration. His book Global Financial Warriors chronicles this period. He was a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors during the George H. W. Bush Administration and Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisors during the Ford and Carter Administrations. In 2012 he was included in the 50 Most Influential list of Bloomberg Markets Magazine. Thomson Reuters lists Taylor among the 'citation laureates' who are likely future winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Kevin Maxwell Warsh (born April 13, 1970), is an American financier, lawyer, government official and academic. During and in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Warsh was a governor of the Federal Reserve System, and acted as the central bank's primary liaison to Wall Street. He is a distinguished visiting fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, a member of the Group of Thirty, and a former steering committee member of the Bilderberg Group.

Gary Cohn, född 27 augusti 1960 i Shaker Heights, Ohio är en amerikansk affärsman och bankman. Sedan den 20 januari 2017 är Cohen USA:s president Donald Trumps ekonomiska rådgivare och chef för National Economic Council i Trumps kabinett.