Dr. Janet L. YellenU.S. Secretary of the Treasury (2021-2025); Chair, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System (2014-2018)
Friday, January 23, 2026 at 12:00 pm
The Forum Club of the Palm Beaches will present Dr. Janet L. Yellen on Friday, January 23, at Noon at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts.
Janet L. Yellen served as the 78th Secretary of the Treasury from 2021 through 2025. Previously, she was a Distinguished Fellow in Residence at the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution. She also served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2014 through February 2018, Vice Chair of the Board of Governors from 2010 to 2014, and President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco from 2004 to 2010.
Dr. Yellen previously served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from August 1994 through February 1997, whereupon she was appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, a post she held until August 1999.
Dr. Yellen has written on a wide variety of macroeconomic issues, specializing in the causes, mechanisms, and implications of unemployment. She began her career as an assistant professor at Harvard University and then served as an economist with the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors before joining the faculty of the London School of Economics in 1978. In 1980 she joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, where she was named the Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor of Business and Professor of Economics, and where she is currently a professor emeritus.
Dr. Yellen graduated from Brown University in 1967 and received her PhD in economics from Yale University in 1971. She received the Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale in 1997 and honorary degrees from Brown, Bard College, NYU, the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of Warwick, Yale, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has served as President of the American Economic Association and the Western Economic Association and a fellow of the Yale Corporation. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association.
Tickets for this event will go on sale Monday, December 8, 2025.
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Doors open at 11:00 a.m. and the program begins at noon.
Member Tickets: $70Applicant Tickets: $80Guest Tickets: $90Public Tickets: $125Event-to-Event Table (10): $800Event-to-Event Half Table (5): $400Full Season Table (10): $700Half Season Table (5): $350Member Virtual Ticket: $25Non-Member Virtual Ticket: $30
Ticket orders may also be made by calling (561) 881-9977. Please note that all reservations are final. No refunds, credits or exchanges will be provided.
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