Simon Johnson (economist)

Simon H. Johnson
Born (1963-01-16) January 16, 1963
Nationality British
Field political economy, development economics
Alma mater MIT (Ph.D.)
University of Manchester (M.A.)
University of Oxford (B.A.)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Simon H. Johnson (born January 16, 1963)[1] is a British American economist. He is the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management[2] and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.[3] He has held a wide variety of academic and policy-related positions, including Professor of Economics at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.[4] From March 2007 through the end of August 2008, he was Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund.[5]

He is author, with James Kwak, of the 2010 book 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown (ISBN 978-0307379054), with whom he has also co-founded and regularly contributes to the economics blog The Baseline Scenario.[6]

Education

Johnson's first degree was a BA from the University of Oxford, which was followed by an MA from the University of Manchester, and finally in 1989 he earned a Ph.D. in economics from MIT, with a thesis entitled Inflation, intermediation, and economic activity.[7]

Affiliations

Among other positions he is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research,[8] and a member of the International Advisory Council at the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE). He is also a member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Economic Advisers.[5] From 2006 to 2007 he was a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, where he is currently a senior fellow.[5] He is on the editorial board of four academic economics journals.[5] He has contributed to Project Syndicate since 2007.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
  2. ↑ Interview with Terry Gross on NPR
  3. ↑ Simon Johnson's biography at the Peterson Institute for International Economics
  4. ↑ LA Times, 29 November 1991, "Muscovites: Want Shares In Boeing For 44 ½?"
  5. 1 2 3 4 Simon Johnson's biography at MIT
  6. ↑ About the Baseline Scenario
  7. ↑ "Inflation, intermediation and economic activity". MIT library.
  8. ↑ List of Center for Economic Policy Research Fellows

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Business positions
Preceded by
Raghuram Rajan		 IMF Chief Economist
2007–08 		Succeeded by
Olivier Blanchard
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