From the Farm to the Fed: Kevin Warsh

Kevin Warsh, former ASSU Chair, Stanford Review alumnus, and a Stanford Public Policy major, has been confirmed as the 17th chair of the Federal Reserve. 

Warsh earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School before transitioning from the M&A department at Morgan Stanley to serving as Special Assistant for Economic Policy to President George W. Bush and as Executive Secretary of the National Economic Council. He then served on the Board of Governors from 2006 to 2011, becoming, at 35, the youngest governor in the institution’s history.

He left in 2011, in part over objections to the growth of the Fed’s balance sheet, and spent the next fifteen years managing investments at Stanley Druckenmiller’s Duquesne Family Office while serving as the Shepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.