Neel Kashkari

Neel Tushar Kashkari is an American banker and politician who is President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. As interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability from October 2008 to May 2009, he oversaw the Troubled Asset Relief Program that was a major component of the U.S. governments response to the financial crisis of 200708. A Republican, he ran for Governor of California in the 2014 election, but failed to unseat incumbent Jerry Brown.

Kashkari was born on July 30, 1973, in Akron, Ohio, to Sheila Kashkari, a pathologist at Akron City Hospital, and Chaman Kashkari, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Akron. His parents are Kashmiri Pandits who immigrated to the United States from Jammu and Kashmir, India in the 1960s. Kashkari grew up in Stow, a suburb of Akron, where his parents were well known within the local community of Indian Hindus. His older sister, Meera Kashkari Kelley, is a physician specializing in infectious diseases. Growing up, his parents and sister were liberal, but his freemarket views led him to identify more with the Republican Party.

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