Simon Johnson (economist)
Appearance
Simon Johnson | |
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Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund | |
In office March 2007 – August 31, 2008 | |
President | Rodrigo Rato Dominique Strauss-Kahn |
Preceded by | Raghuram Rajan |
Succeeded by | Olivier Blanchard |
Personal details | |
Born | January 16, 1963 |
Education | University of Oxford (BA) University of Manchester (MA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
Academic career | |
Field | Political economy Development economics |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2024) |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc |
Simon H. Johnson (born January 16, 1963)[1] is a British American economist. He is a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management[2] and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.[3] From 2007 to 2008, he was the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund.
In 2024, Johnson, Daron Acemoglu, and James A. Robinson were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.[4]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
- ↑ "Simon Johnson On Bank Bailout Plan". NPR.org.
- ↑ "Simon Johnson". PIIE. March 2, 2016.
- ↑ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2024-10-14.