Simon Johnson | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Simon H. Johnson (born January 16, 1963)[1] is a British American economist. He is the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management[2] and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.[3] He has held a wide variety of academic and policy-related positions, including professor of economics at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.[4] From March 2007 through the end of August 2008, he was Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund.[5]