Tarullo worked in the Antitrust Division of the
U.S. Department of Justice and as Special Assistant to the Undersecretary of Commerce. He taught at
Harvard Law School early in his career, having been denied tenure in a then unusual move by Harvard leadership. He later served as Chief Counsel for Employment Policy on the staff of Senator
Edward M. Kennedy and practiced law in Washington, D.C. He served in the
Clinton 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 and as a senior fellow at the
Center for American Progress. During 2005 he was the chair the Economic Security group of the
Princeton Project on National Security. Shortly after he took office, President
Barack Obama 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. On January 3, 2014, Daniel Tarullo administered the oath of office to
Janet Yellen, as
Chairman of the Federal Reserve, as she took office, replacing
Ben Bernanke, who joined the
Brookings Institution, as a distinguished fellow in residence. ==Articles and editorial work==