dChan - Q Origins Project Archive

>Who is Lael Brainard? Chairs 6 of 7 Fed board committees

Says it all right here. Nasty!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lael_Brainard

Brainard grew up as an expatriate in Communist Poland and Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall.[6] Brainard received masters and doctoral degrees in economics from Harvard University, where she was a National Science Foundation Fellow.[1] She graduated with university honors from Wesleyan University with a degree from the College of Social Studies.[1] She is the recipient of a White House Fellowship and a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, a Marshall Scholar elect, and a member of the Wesleyan University Board of Trustees, Council on Foreign Relations, and Aspen Strategy Group

Brainard has also worked at McKinsey & Company advising corporate clients on strategic challenges and she has also worked on microenterprise in West Africa.

Brainard served as Deputy National Economic Adviser and Chair of the Deputy Secretaries Committee on International Economics during the Clinton administration.[1] As Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, she helped build a new White House organization to address global economic challenges such as the Asian financial crisis and China's accession to the World Trade Organization.

On March 23, 2009, President Obama nominated Brainard to serve as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, Brainard managed the Office of International Affairs at the Treasury Department with responsibilities including the euro area crisis and currency relations with China.