Jared Bernstein, a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, was approved by the Senate in a 50-49 vote Tuesday to be CEA chair, four months after he received a nomination from President Joe Biden, Reuters reported.
Bernstein succeeds Cecilia Rouse, who stepped down as the Biden administration’s top economist in March and returned to Princeton University as a professor of economics and public affairs.
He will lead the council tasked with providing economic policy recommendations to the president.
A Columbia University graduate, Bernstein advised then-Vice President Biden on economic matters from 2009 to 2011 and served as a senior fellow at Washington, D.C. think tank Center on Budget and Policy Priorities from 2011 to 2020.
His career also includes time as executive director of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class, director of the Economic Policy Institute’s Living Standards Program and a stint as deputy chief economist at the Department of Labor under the Clinton administration.