PERSON: Neel Kashkari

Minneapolis Federal Reserve

President

Neel Tushar Kashkari (born July 30, 1973) is an American banker and politician. As interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability from October 2008 to May 2009, he oversaw the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) that was a major component of the U.S. government’s response to the financial crisis of 2007–08. A Republican, he ran for Governor of California in the 2014 election, but failed to unseat incumbent Jerry Brown.

He was named the new president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve November 10, 2015, succeeding Narayana Kocherlakota who announced his resignation in June. Minneapolis, which was last an FOMC voting member in 2014, will next be a voting member in 2017.

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