Stanley Fischer |
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Official portrait, 2014 |
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In office
June 16, 2014 – October 13, 2017 |
| President | Barack Obama
Donald Trump |
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| Preceded by | Janet Yellen |
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| Succeeded by | Richard Clarida |
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In office
May 21, 2014 – October 13, 2017 |
| President | Barack Obama
Donald Trump |
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| Preceded by | Ben Bernanke |
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| Succeeded by | Michelle Bowman |
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In office
May 1, 2005 – June 30, 2013 |
| Prime Minister | Ariel Sharon
Ehud Olmert
Benjamin Netanyahu |
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| Preceded by | David Klein |
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| Succeeded by | Karnit Flug |
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In office
September 1, 1994 – August 31, 2001 |
| Managing Director | Michel Camdessus
Horst Köhler |
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| Preceded by | Richard Erb |
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| Succeeded by | Anne Osborn Krueger |
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In office
January 1988 – August 1990 |
| President | Barber Conable |
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| Preceded by | Anne Osborn Krueger |
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| Succeeded by | Lawrence Summers |
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| Born | (1943-10-15)October 15, 1943
Mazabuka, Northern Rhodesia |
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| Died | May 31, 2025(2025-05-31) (aged 81)
Lexington, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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| Spouse |
Rhoda Keet
(m. 1965 ; died 2020 ) |
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| Children | 3 |
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| Education | London School of Economics (BSc, MSc)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
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| Doctoral advisor | Franklin M. Fisher |
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| Discipline | Macroeconomics |
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| School or tradition | New Keynesian economics |
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| Doctoral students | Zvi Bodie
Isher Judge Ahluwalia
Frederic Mishkin
Steven M. Sheffrin
Olivier Blanchard
Ben Bernanke
Kazuo Ueda
David Hsieh
Kenneth D. West
Greg Mankiw
Jeffrey Miron
Mark Bils
David Romer
Ricardo J. Caballero
Michael Kuehlwein
D. Nathan Sheets
Ilan Goldfajn |
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Stanley Fischer (Hebrew: סטנלי פישר; October 15, 1943 – May 31, 2025) was an American and Israeli economist who served as the 20th vice chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2017. Fischer previously served as the 8th governor of the Bank of Israel from 2005 to 2013. Born in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), he held dual citizenship in Israel and the United States. He previously served as First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and as Chief Economist of the World Bank. On January 10, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Fischer to the position of Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve. On September 6, 2017, Fischer announced that he was resigning as vice-chair for personal reasons effective October 13, 2017. He was a senior advisor at BlackRock.
