WASHINGTON, April 21 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated University of Minnesota Professor Christopher Phelan to be his chief economic adviser, the White House said on Tuesday.
Phelan, if confirmed by the Senate, would fill the vacancy created when Trump appointed the former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Stephen Miran, to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors.
Phelan has been a professor at the University of Minnesota’s Department of Economics for nearly 19 years and previously served as a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, according to his LinkedIn profile. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago.
Miran resigned from his position as chair of the White House’s CEA in February, fulfilling a pledge he made to the Senate.
(Reporting by Jasper Ward and Ismail Shakil;Editing by David Ljunggren)
