William Jack Baumol was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at New York University,Academic Director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation,and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He was a prolific author of more than eighty books and several hundred journal articles. He is the namesake of the Baumol effect.
John Brian Taylor is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University,and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
Fritz Machlup was an Austrian-American economist known for his work in information economics. He was President of the International Economic Association from 1971 to 1974. He was one of the first economists to examine knowledge as an economic resource,and is credited with popularising the concept of the information society.
Fabrizio Zilibotti is an Italian economist. He is the Tuntex Professor of International and Development Economics at Yale University. Zilibotti was previously professor of economics at University College London,the University of Zürich,and at the Institute for International Economic Studies in Stockholm.
Brad W. Setser is an American economist. He is a former staff economist at the United States Department of the Treasury,worked at Roubini Global Economics Monitor as Director of Global Research where he co-authored the book "Bailouts or Bail-ins?" with Nouriel Roubini,as a fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations,for the United States National Economic Council as Director of International Economics,for the United States Department of the Treasury,and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Economic Analysis as senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Eswar Shanker Prasad is an Indian-American economist. He is the Tolani Senior Professor of International Trade Policy at Cornell University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution,where he holds the New Century Chair in Economics.
Markus Konrad Brunnermeier is an economist,who is the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Economics at Princeton University.
The chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is also the economic counsellor and director of the fund's Research Department and is responsible for providing independent advice to the fund on its policy issues,integrating ideas of the research in the design of policies,conveying these ideas to the policymakers inside and outside the fund and managing all research done at IMF. The chief economist is a member of the Senior Leadership of the IMF.
Dennis J. Snower is an American-German economist,specialising in macroeconomic theory and policy,labor economics,digital governance,social economics,and the psychology of economic decisions in "caring economics". He is President of the Global Solutions Initiative in Berlin,Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at Oxford University,Fellow at the New Institute in Hamburg,and Non-resident Fellow of the Brookings Institution in Washington,D.C. He is former president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. His prominent labor research explores the role of “insiders”and “outsiders”in generating unemployment and macroeconomic fluctuations;his socio-economic research examines how social groups shape economic behavior;his psycho-economic research explains how economic decisions depend on psychological motives;and his macroeconomic research investigates why inflation and unemployment can move in opposite directions even in the long run.
Richard Harris Clarida is an American economist who served as the 21st Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve from 2018 to 2022. Clarida resigned his post on January 14,2022,to return from public service leave to teach at Columbia University for the spring term of 2022. He is the C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Columbia University and,from 2006 until September 2018 and from October 2022 to the present,a Global Strategic Advisor for PIMCO. He is notable for his contributions to dynamic stochastic general equilibrium theory and international monetary economics. He is a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and is a recipient of the Treasury Medal. He also was a proponent of the theory that inflation was transitory during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gita Gopinath is an Indian-American economist who has served as the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF),since 21 January 2022. She had previously served as chief economist of the IMF between 2019 and 2022.
Phillip Lee "Phill" Swagel is an American economist who is currently the director of the Congressional Budget Office. As Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from 2006 to 2009,he played an important role in the Troubled Asset Relief Program that was part of the U.S. government's response to the financial crisis of 2007–08. He was recently a Professor in International Economics at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy,a non-resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute,senior fellow at the Milken Institute,and co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Financial Regulatory Reform Initiative.
David H. Autor is an American economist,public policy scholar,and professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),where he also acts as co-director of the School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative. Although Autor has contributed to a variety of fields in economics his research generally focuses on topics from labor economics.
Emi Nakamura is a Canadian-American economist. She is the Chancellor's Professor of Economics at University of California,Berkeley. Nakamura is a research associate and co-director of the Monetary Economics Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research,and a co-editor of the American Economic Review.
Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln is a German economist and currently holds the Chair for Macroeconomics and Development at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research has been awarded the Gossen Prize in 2016 and the Leibniz Prize in 2018. The Leibniz award is considered to be one of the highest scientific awards in all of Germany.
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas is a French economist who has been the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund since 2022. Gourinchas is also the S.K. and Angela Chan Professor of Management at the University of California,Berkeley. At the University of California,he also directs the Clausen Center for International Business and Policy and is affiliated with the Haas School of Business. His research focuses on macroeconomics,in particular international macroeconomics and international finance. In 2008,Gourinchas received the Prize of the Best Young Economist of France.
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé is a German economist who has been a professor of economics at Columbia University since 2008. Her research focuses on macroeconomics,fiscal policy,and monetary policy in open and closed economies. In 2004,she was awarded the Bernácer Prize,for her research on monetary stabilization policies.
Jón Steinsson is Chancellor's Professor of Economics at University of California,Berkeley,a research associate and co-director of the Monetary Economics program of the National Bureau of Economic Research,and associate editor of both American Economic Review:Insights,and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He received his PhD in economics from Harvard and his AB from Princeton.
Mary Amiti is an Australian economist and a Vice President of the Microeconomic Studies Function at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Oleg Itskhoki is a Russian-American economist specialized on macroeconomics and international economics and a professor of economics at the University of California,Los Angeles. He won the John Bates Clark Medal for his "fundamental contributions to both international finance and international trade" in 2022.
