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Maury Obstfeld
Obstfeld (third from right) in a meeting with Barack Obama
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
Personal details
Born
(1952-03-19) 19 March 1952 (age 72) New York City, New York, U.S.
Education
University of Pennsylvania (BA) King's College, Cambridge (MA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Academic career
Institution
University of California, Berkeley
Field
International economics
School or tradition
New Keynesian economics
Doctoral advisor
Rudi Dornbusch[1]
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Maurice Moses "Maury" Obstfeld (born March 19, 1952) is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley and previously Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.[2]
He is well known for his work in international economics and his research on the global economy. He is among the most influential economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc. He graduated from University of Pennsylvania summa cum laude, Cambridge and MIT, 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 the Bank 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 the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is active as a research Fellow of CEPR, a research associate at NBER, and an International Research Fellow at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.[4]
On June 3, 2014, the White House announced that Obstfeld would join the Council of Economic Advisers as lead macroeconomist.[5]
On July 20, 2015, Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), announced her intention to appoint Obstfeld as Economic Counsellor and Director of the IMF’s Research Department. Obstfeld succeeds Olivier Blanchard whose retirement was announced previously. He began his work at the Fund on September 8, 2015.[6]
^"PDS login". Library.mit.edu. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
^Heller, Michele (30 January 2019). "Maurice Obstfeld joins the Peterson Institute". Peterson Institute for International Economics. Peterson Institute for International Economics. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
^"Past Keynote Speakers". Carrollround.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
^"Profile". Retrieved 1 February 2014.
^Irwin, Neil (3 June 2014). "New Member of Obama's Economic Team Has International Expertise". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
^IMF (20 July 2015). "IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde Appoints Maurice Obstfeld as Economic Counsellor and Director of the IMF's Research Department". Imf.org. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
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