# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rebecca-blank
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:34:45.126Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rebecca-blank"
name: "Rebecca Blank"
slug: "rebecca-blank"
description: "Rebecca Margaret Blank was an American economist and academic administrator. She was the ninth chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 2013 to 2022. She served in several senior roles in the United States Department of Commerce during the presidency of Barack Obama, including more than a year as acting United States Secretary of Commerce."
tagline: "American economist (1955–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rebecca_Blank_official_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1955-09-19"
deathDate: "2023-02-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.29
  momentum:             0.9146341463414633
  historical:           14.233912
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Rebecca Blank"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump