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Ben Bernanke was born on December 13, 1953 in Augusta, Georgia, United States and is credited as an economist, politician and professor. As of 2026, Ben Bernanke is 72 years old. Education on record includes Dillon High School and Harvard University. Recorded honors include Guggenheim Fellowship (1999), Adam Smith Award (2014), Fellow of the Econometric Society (1997) and 3 more.
My Take
Ben Bernanke is one of those rare figures who you genuinely have to respect even if you don't agree with every call he made — because when the 2008 financial crisis hit, he was basically the person standing between the global economy and a full-on catastrophe. A Harvard-educated economist raised in small-town South Carolina who'd spent his academic career studying the Great Depression, he ended up having to actually live through something close to a replay of it. His moves at the Federal Reserve — the bailouts, the quantitative easing, all of it — were controversial and remain debated, but the fact that he took home the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2022 for his research on banks and financial crises says a lot. The world's best economists gave the nod to the guy who was doing the job in the room when it mattered most.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Ben Bernanke
- Name (Japanese)
- ベン・バーナンキ
- Reading
- べん・ばーなんき
- Born
- December 13, 1953 (age 72)
- Origin
- Augusta, Georgia, United States
- Occupation
- economist / politician / professor / banker / teacher
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Snake
2. Background
- High school
- Dillon High School
- University
- Harvard University
Awards & achievements
- 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2014 Adam Smith Award
- 1997 Fellow of the Econometric Society
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
- 2022 Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
3. Links
4. About this entry
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Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.
Frequently asked questions
When was Ben Bernanke born?
Ben Bernanke was born on December 13, 1953 and is 72 years old.
Where is Ben Bernanke from?
Ben Bernanke is from Augusta, Georgia, United States.
What does Ben Bernanke do?
Ben Bernanke works as economist, politician, professor, banker, teacher.
Where did Ben Bernanke study?
Ben Bernanke attended Harvard University.
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