Adam Posen | |
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| Born | 1966 Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | Harvard University (BA,MA,PhD) |
| Title | President of thePeterson Institute for International Economics |
| Website | piie |
Adam Simon PosenCBE (born 1966) is an Americaneconomist and President of thePeterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE). He became PIIE president on January 1, 2013, having first joined the Institute in July 1997.[1]
Posen was born inBrookline, Massachusetts. He isJewish.[2][3] He received aPhD in Political Economy and Government fromHarvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellow, after graduating fromHarvard College in 1988.[citation needed]
His research focuses onmacroeconomic policy in the industrial democracies,G-20 economic relations, the resolution of financial crises, and central banking issues. He has been a consultant to the IMF and to several US government agencies, as well as to the British and Japanese Cabinet Offices, and a visiting scholar at central banks in Europe and East Asia, and in the US Federal Reserve System. From 1994 to 1997, he was an economist in international research at theFederal Reserve Bank of New York and from 1993 to 1994 was Okun Memorial Fellow in Economic Studies at theBrookings Institution. He was aBosch Foundation Fellow in Germany in 1992 to 1993, where he worked for theBundesbank in Frankfurt and forDeutsche Bank in Berlin. He has also been a Public Policy Fellow at theAmerican Academy in Berlin (2001).[4] In 2006 he was a Houblon-Norman Senior Fellow at theBank of England, on sabbatical fromPeterson Institute for International Economics.
From September 1, 2009 to August 31, 2012, he was a voting External Member of theMonetary Policy Committee of theBank of England, by appointment of the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer.
His most cited publications include the booksRestoring Japan's Economic Growth (1998)[5] andInflation Targeting: Lessons from the International Experience[6] (1999, co-authored withBen Bernanke, Thomas Laubach, and Frederic Mishkin), a series of articles on the political economy of central bank independence, and more recent works on the global roles of the dollar and the euro.[7]
This article incorporatespublic domain material fromthe US mission to Germany."After the conventions: the race to the White House".U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets.United States Department of State. RetrievedApril 3, 2010.
