Admiral of finance

NAME - Ben Bernanke.

AGE-BIRTH DATE - 55; Dec. 13, 1953, in Augusta, Ga.

EDUCATION - B.A. in economics, 1975, Harvard University; Ph.D. in economics, 1979, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

EXPERIENCE - Feb. 1, 2006, to present, chairman of the Federal Reserve; June 2005 to Jan. 31, 2006, chairman, President's Council of Economic Advisers; 2002-2005, member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; 1996-2002, professor and chairman of the Economics Department at Princeton University; 1985-2002, economics professor, Princeton University.

FAMILY - Wife, Anna; two children.

QUOTE - "I was not going to be the Federal Reserve chairman who presided over the second Great Depression," Bernanke in a July 26 town-hall meeting moderated by PBS' Jim Lehrer.