Former Fed chair Ben Bernanke wins Nobel economics prize 2022

Head of US central bank from 2006 to 2014 awarded prize alongside economists Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig

The former chair of the US Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke has been awarded this year's Nobel prize in economics alongside two other leading economists for their work on financial crises.

The former head of the world's most powerful central bank, who was at the helm during the 2008 financial crisis and helped oversee the global response, shared the prize with the economists Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig.