What is Lael Brainard?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Lael Brainard |image = Lael Brainard, NEC Director.jpg |caption = Official portrait, 2023 |office = Director of the [[National Economic Council (United States)|National Economic Council]] |president = [[Joe Biden]] |term_start = February 21, 2023 |term_end = January 20, 2025 |predecessor = [[Brian Deese]] |successor = [[Kevin Hassett]] |office2 = 22nd [[Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve]] |president2 = [[Joe Biden]] |term_start2 = May 23, 2022 |term_end2 = February 18, 2023 |predecessor2 = [[Richard Clarida]] |successor2 = [[Philip Jefferson]] |office3 = Member of the [[Federal Reserve Board of Governors]] |president3 = [[Barack Obama]]<br>[[Donald Trump]]<br>[[Joe Biden]] |term_start3 = June 16, 2014 |term_end3 = February 18, 2023 |predecessor3 = [[Elizabeth Ashburn Duke]] |successor3 = [[Adriana Kugler]] |office4 = [[Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs]] |president4 = [[Barack Obama]] |term_start4 = April 20, 2010 |term_end4 = November 8, 2013 |predecessor4 = [[David H. McCormick]] |successor4 = [[Nathan Sheets]] |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|1|1}} |birth_place = [[Hamburg]], [[West Germany]] (now [[Germany]]) |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] |spouse = {{marriage|[[Kurt M. Campbell]]|1998}} |children = 3 |education = [[Wesleyan University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Harvard University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]]) }} '''Lael Brainard''' (born January 1, 1962) is an American economist. Brainard was the 14th Director of the [[National Economic Council (United States)|National Economic Council]] from 2023 until 2025. She was the [[Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve]] from 2022 to 2023. She was on the [[Federal Reserve Board of Governors]] from 2014 to 2023. She was the [[Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs|United States Under Secretary of the T