--- title: Janet Yellen by Anat Admati: TIME 100 description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. canonical: https://time.com/collections/2015-time-100/3822773/janet-yellen-2015-time-100/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-15T14:54:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-07-21T07:22:01.593Z og:title: Janet Yellen by Anat Admati: TIME 100 og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/collections/2015-time-100/3822773/janet-yellen-2015-time-100/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt22d3c2dc38d8cf69/6987eb24cd68486aba09d848/janet-yellen-time-100-2015-titans.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Janet Yellen by Anat Admati: TIME 100 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Janet Yellen by Anat Admati: TIME 100 twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt22d3c2dc38d8cf69/6987eb24cd68486aba09d848/janet-yellen-time-100-2015-titans.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Apr 15, 2015 # Janet Yellen by Anat Admati  Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen speaks with representatives of CONNECT, a coalition of local organizations that provides employment services in Chelsea, Mass., at the CONNECT office, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014\. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer) Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen speaks with representatives of CONNECT, a coalition of local organizations that provides employment services in Chelsea, Mass., at the CONNECT office, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014\. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)Michael Dwyer—AP As the leader of the most important central bank in the world, Janet Yellen can impact economies around the globe. In Washington, where political wrangling often leads to paralysis, her Federal Reserve can actually decide and act. Janet is special, being the first woman to occupy her job. She is a trailblazer. I cheer for Janet when watching her in action, and it’s a privilege to discuss research and policy with her. Janet is smart, experienced and deliberate. She doesn’t push the flawed narrative that financial crises are like natural disasters. She willingly engages on whether current regulations are effective, including with critics like me. No one person can bring about all the changes in laws, regulation and enforcement still needed to correct the financial system. But Janet Yellen matters a great deal. Her commitment and engagement give me hope. _Admati is a finance and economics professor at Stanford and a co-author of_ The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong With Banking and What to Do About It ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2015-time-100/3822773/janet-yellen-2015-time-100/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2015-time-100/3822773/janet-yellen-2015-time-100/"},"headline":"Janet Yellen","datePublished":"2015-04-15T14:54:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T07:22:01.593Z","description":"Market mover","url":"https://time.com/collections/2015-time-100/3822773/janet-yellen-2015-time-100/","keywords":["TIME 100"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt22d3c2dc38d8cf69/6987eb24cd68486aba09d848/janet-yellen-time-100-2015-titans.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt22d3c2dc38d8cf69/6987eb24cd68486aba09d848/janet-yellen-time-100-2015-titans.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/2015-time-100/3822773/janet-yellen-2015-time-100/","name":"Janet Yellen"}}]}] ```