| Adam Posen | |
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| Born | 1966 Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | Harvard University (BA, MA, PhD) |
| Title | President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics |
| Website | piie |
Adam Simon Posen CBE (born 1966) is an American economist and President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE). He became PIIE president on January 1, 2013, having first joined the Institute in July 1997.
Life and career
Posen was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is Jewish. He received a PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellow, after graduating from Harvard College in 1988.
His research focuses on macroeconomic policy in the industrial democracies, G-20 economic relations, the resolution of financial crises, and central banking issues. He has been a consultant to the IMF and to several US government agencies, as well as to the British and Japanese Cabinet Offices, and a visiting scholar at central banks in Europe and East Asia, and in the US Federal Reserve System. From 1994 to 1997, he was an economist in international research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and from 1993 to 1994 was Okun Memorial Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. He was a Bosch Foundation Fellow in Germany in 1992 to 1993, where he worked for the Bundesbank in Frankfurt and for Deutsche Bank in Berlin. He has also been a Public Policy Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin (2001). In 2006 he was a Houblon-Norman Senior Fellow at the Bank of England, on sabbatical from Peterson Institute for International Economics.
From September 1, 2009 to August 31, 2012, he was a voting External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England, by appointment of the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Publications
His most cited publications include the books Restoring Japan's Economic Growth (1998) and Inflation Targeting: Lessons from the International Experience (1999, co-authored with Ben Bernanke, Thomas Laubach, and Frederic Mishkin), a series of articles on the political economy of central bank independence, and more recent works on the global roles of the dollar and the euro.
References
- "Adam S. Posen to become new President". Peterson Institute. Archived from the original on May 21, 2013. Retrieved May 19, 2012.
- Posen, Adam (September 6, 2018). "Powerful, personal, on point, and people should read" (Tweet). Retrieved October 9, 2022 – via Twitter.
- "Watch out for this year's playmakers". The Jewish Chronicle. January 7, 2010. Retrieved October 9, 2022.
- "After the conventions: the race to the White House". The United States Diplomatic Mission to Germany. September 9, 2008. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
- Adam Simon Posen (1998). Restoring Japan's Economic Growth. Peterson Institute. ISBN 978-0-88132-262-0.
- Ben S. Bernanke; Thomas Laubach; Frederic S. Mishkin; Adam S. Posen (2001). Inflation Targeting: Lessons from the International Experience. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-08689-7.
- "Adam S. Posen". The Peterson Institute for International Economics. Archived from the original on April 2, 2010. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
External links
This article incorporates public domain material from the US mission to Germany. "After the conventions: the race to the White House". U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets. United States Department of State. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
- Living people
- People from Brookline, Massachusetts
- Monetary Policy Committee members
- Harvard College alumni
- 1966 births
- Economists from Massachusetts
- 20th-century American economists
- 21st-century American economists
- Jewish American economists
- Peterson Institute for International Economics
- 20th-century American Jews
- 21st-century American Jews