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Ben S. Bernanke (Ph. D., MIT, 1979), is the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the Chairman of the Department of Economics. He is a macroeconomist with interests in monetary policy and macroeconomic history. He is the Director of the Monetary Economics Program of the National Bureau of Economics Research and the Editor of the American Economic Review.

Current papers:

• Is Growth Exogenous? Taking Mankiw, Romer and Weil Seriously.
• Monetary Policy in a Data-Rich Environment
• Should Central Banks Respond to Movements in Asset Prices?

I scanned the “Monetary Policy in a Data-Rich Environment” paper and can report this guy sounds like a Fed Chairman that techno geeks can live with. In this paper he advocates using larger, more complex data sets to make federal economic decisions.
(Source Princeton.edu/~bernake)