Simon Johnson (economist)

Simon Johnson
Johnson in 2023
Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund
In office
March 2007 – August 31, 2008
PresidentRodrigo Rato
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Preceded byRaghuram Rajan
Succeeded byOlivier Blanchard
Personal details
Born (1963-01-16) January 16, 1963 (age 61)
EducationUniversity of Oxford (BA)
University of Manchester (MA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Academic background
ThesisInflation, intermediation, and economic activity (1989)
Doctoral advisorRudiger Dornbusch
Academic career
FieldPolitical economy
Development economics
AwardsNobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2024)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Simon H. Johnson (born January 16, 1963)[1] is a British-American economist who has served as the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management since 2004.[2][3] He also served as a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics from 2008 to 2019.[2][4] Before moving to MIT, he taught at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business from 1991 to 1997.[2][5][6] From March 2007 through the end of August 2008, he served as Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund.[7]

In 2024, Johnson, Daron Acemoglu, and James A. Robinson were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their comparative studies in prosperity between nations.[8]

  1. ^ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
  2. ^ a b c https://mitsloan.mit.edu/shared/ods/documents?PersonID=41226&DocID=11324
  3. ^ "Simon Johnson On Bank Bailout Plan". NPR.org.
  4. ^ "Simon Johnson". PIIE. March 2, 2016.
  5. ^ LA Times, November 29, 1991, "Muscovites: Want Shares In Boeing For 44 ½?"
  6. ^ "Simon Johnson CV". mitsloan.mit.edu. October 14, 2024.
  7. ^ "Simon Johnson's biography at MIT".
  8. ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved October 14, 2024.