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Maurice Obstfeld

Biography

Maurice Obstfeld has been the Economic Counsellor and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) since September 2015, on leave from the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, he is the Class of 1958 Professor of Economics and was formerly Chair of the Department of Economics (1998-2001). He arrived at Berkeley in 1991 as a professor, following permanent appointments at Columbia (1979-86) and the University of Pennsylvania (1986-89) as well as a visiting appointment at Harvard (1989-90). Born in 1952, Maurice Obstfeld received his PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1979, after attending the University of Pennsylvania (BA, 1973) and King’s College, Cambridge University in the UK (MA, 1975).

From July 2014 to August 2015, Dr Obstfeld served as a member of US President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers. He was previously an honorary adviser to the Bank of Japan’s Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies (2002-14). He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among Dr Obstfeld’s honours are Tilburg University’s Tjalling C. Koopmans Asset Award; the John von Neumann Award of the Rajk László College for Advanced Studies (Budapest); and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy’s Bernhard Harms Prize. Dr Obstfeld has served both on the Executive Committee and as Vice President of the American Economic Association. He has consulted and taught at the IMF and numerous central banks around the world.

Professor Harhoff is Chairman of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation of the German Federal Government. He is an elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences, the German National Academy of Science and Engineering, and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Maurice Obstfeld is also the co-author of two leading textbooks on international economics, International Economics (10th edition, 2014, with Paul Krugman and Marc Melitz) and Foundations of International Macroeconomics (1996, with Kenneth Rogoff).