Bernanke's Life in Photos
Courtesy Bernanke Family
Family
After Harvard, Bernanke went on to pursue a Ph.D. at MIT, where he met on a blind date Anna, a student at Wellesley, who would become his wife. They have two children, a son in medical school and a daughter who has just finished college.
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