Daniel Tarullo is a professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center

Georgetown University Law Center

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 and a member of the Board of Governors

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 of the United States

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 Federal Reserve Board since January 28th, 2009. His areas of specialty are international economic regulation, banking law, and international law.

Early life

Tarullo was born in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from the prestigious Roxbury Latin School

Roxbury Latin School

The Roxbury Latin School is the oldest school in continuous operation in North America. The school was founded in Roxbury, Massachusetts by the Rev. John Eliot under a charter received from King Charles I of England. Since its founding in 1645, it has educated boys on a continuous basis.Located...

 in 1969. He graduated summa cum laude in 1977 from the University of Michigan Law School

University of Michigan Law School

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. He received a B.A. from Georgetown University in 1973 and an M.A. at Duke University

Duke University

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 in 1974.

Career

Tarullo worked in the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department and as Special Assistant to the Undersecretary of Commerce. He taught at Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School

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 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.

He served in the Clinton

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 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 a member of the National Economic Council and the National Security Council. 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

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 and as a senior fellow at American Progress. During 2005 he was the chair the Economic Security group of the Princeton Project

Princeton Project

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 on National Security.

Shortly after he took office, President Barack Obama

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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.

Editorial

• Runs the bi-monthly World Economic Update, a forum sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations for debate on the U.S. and global economies among leading economists.
• Serves on the editorial advisory board of The International Economy and the Advisory Committee of Transparency International.

Articles

• Reforming the World Bank and IMF, August 2, 2007
• Laboring for Trade Deals: Trade Agreements and Labor Rights, March 28, 2007
• The Case for Reviving the Doha Trade Round, January 8, 2007