Live: Trump pick Kevin Warsh faces Senate hearing to replace Powell as Fed Chair

Kevin Warsh, 56, is a financier and attorney – and no stranger to the US central bank.

He was nominated to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in 2006 by former president George W Bush after serving on Bush’s National Economic Council.

He sat on the Board through the 2008 financial crisis, departing in 2011.

Warsh brings a traditional background to the Fed job: an Ivy League education, a prior stint at the Fed, as well as time on Wall Street and at the Hoover Institution – a conservative economic think tank.

He has been an outspoken Fed critic, lambasting everything from