Simon Johnson (economist)

Simon Johnson
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 career
FieldPolitical economy
Development economics
AwardsNobel 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

  1. ↑ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
  2. ↑ "Simon Johnson On Bank Bailout Plan". NPR.org.
  3. ↑ "Simon Johnson". PIIE. March 2, 2016.
  4. ↑ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2024-10-14.