Background
Tarullo was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from the prestigious Roxbury Latin School in 1969.
Tarullo was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from the prestigious Roxbury Latin School in 1969.
He graduated summa cum laude in 1977 from the University of Michigan Law School.
He is also a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. He specializes in international economic regulation, banking law, and international law. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Georgetown University in 1973 and an Master of Arts at Duke University in 1974.
Tarullo worked in the Antitrust Division of the United States. Department of Justice and as Special Assistant to the Undersecretary of Commerce.
He taught at Harvard Law School early in his career and later served as Chief Counsel for Employment Policy on the staff of Senator Edward M. Kennedy and practiced law in Washington, District of Columbia He served in the Clinton Administration as Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and later as Assistant to the President for International Economic Policy where he was responsible for coordinating the international economic policy of the administration. He was also Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs from 1993 to 1996.
Tarullo served as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. During 2005 he was the chair the Economic Security group of the Princeton Project on National Security.
Shortly after he took office, President Barack Obama nominated Tarullo to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.
He took office on January 28, 2009, to fill an unexpired term ending January 31, 2022. On January 3, 2014, Daniel Tarullo administered the oath of office to Janet Yellen, as Chairman of the Federal Reserve, as she took office, replacing Ben Bernanke, who joined the Brookings Institution, as a distinguished fellow in residence. and editorial work Editorial Runs the bi-monthly World Economic Update, a forum sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations for debate on the United States and global economies among leading economists. Serves on the editorial advisory board of The International Economy and the Advisory Committee of Transparency International.
He was a member of the National Economic Council and the National Security Council.