The former president of the US Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan died at the age of one hundred, according to US media reports this Monday.

Born in March 1926 in New York, Greenspan headed the FED between 1987 and 2006.

An influential economist who chaired the Federal Reserve for almost five terms, Greenspan has died due to complications resulting from Parkinson's disease, according to his wife Andrea Mitchell, chief Washington correspondent and chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News.

Greenspan, nicknamed the “Master,” was the head of the Fed during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

The son of a stockbroker, Greenspan's life before finance was marked by music. The New York economist studied clarinet at the prestigious Juilliard School, where composer John Williams graduated, and toured the United States professionally playing saxophone and clarinet in the Henry Jerome band.

After touring the country, he began a career in Economic Sciences, from which he graduated in 1948.

In 1968, he became an advisor to the presidential campaign of Republican candidate Richard Nixon, and after holding different positions in the administrations of Nixon himself, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, he was nominated by the latter to succeed Paul Volcker as head of the United States Federal Reserve. EFE