Maury Obstfeld | |
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.jpg) Obstfeld (third from right) in a meeting withBarack Obama in 2015 | |
| Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund | |
| In office 8 September 2015 – 31 December 2018 | |
| President | Christine Lagarde |
| Preceded by | Olivier Blanchard |
| Succeeded by | Gita Gopinath |
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| Born | (1952-03-19)19 March 1952 (age 73) New York City, U.S. |
| Education | University of Pennsylvania (BA) King's College, Cambridge (MA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Academic background | |
| Doctoral advisor | Rudi Dornbusch[1] |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | International economics |
| School or tradition | New Keynesian economics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
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Maurice Moses "Maury"Obstfeld (born March 19, 1952) is a professor ofeconomics at theUniversity of California, Berkeley and previouslyChief Economist at theInternational Monetary Fund. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at thePeterson Institute for International Economics.[2]
He is well known for his work ininternational economics and his research on theglobal economy. He is among the most influential economists in the world according toIDEAS/RePEc. He graduated fromUniversity of Pennsylvaniasumma cum laude,Cambridge andMIT, where received his Ph.D. in 1979. Director of the Center for International and Development Economic Research (CIDER). He joined Berkeley in 1989 as a professor, following appointments at Columbia (1979–1986) and the University of Pennsylvania (1986–1989). He was also a visiting professor at Harvard between 1989 and 1991. Obstfeld serves as honorary advisor to theBank of Japan's Institute of Monetary and Economic Studies. Among Obstfeld's honors are the Carroll Round Keynote Lecture,[3] Woodward Lecture, and Bernhard Harms Prize and Lecture in 2004. Obstfeld is a Fellow of theEconometric Society and theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is active as a research Fellow of CEPR, a research associate atNBER, and an International Research Fellow at theKiel Institute for the World Economy.[4]
On June 3, 2014, the White House announced that Obstfeld would join theCouncil of Economic Advisers as lead macroeconomist.[5]
On July 20, 2015,Christine Lagarde, managing director of theInternational Monetary Fund (IMF), announced her intention to appoint Obstfeld as Economic Counsellor and Director of the IMF's Research Department. Obstfeld succeedsOlivier Blanchard whose retirement was announced previously. He began his work at the Fund on September 8, 2015.[6]
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