Simon Johnson (economist)

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

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.[5]

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[edit] Education

Simon Johnson holds a Ph.D. in economics from MIT, an M.A. from the University of Manchester, and his B.A. is from the University of Oxford.[citation needed]

[edit] Affiliations

Among other positions he is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research.[6] He is also a member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Economic Advisers.[4] In 2006-7 he was a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.[4] He is on the editorial board of four academic economics journals.[4]

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Preceded by
Raghuram Rajan
IMF Chief Economist
2007–08
Succeeded by
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