Maurice Obstfeld Biography

Maurice Obstfeld has been the Economic Counsellor and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund on leave from the University of California Berkeley. At Berkeley he is the Class of 1958 Professor of Economics and formerly Chair of the Department of Economics (1998-2001). He arrived at Berkeley in 1991 as a professor following permanent appointments at Columbia (1979-1986) and the University of Pennsylvania (1986-1989) and a visiting appointment at Harvard (1989-90). He received his Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1979 after attending the University of Pennsylvania (B.A. 1973) and King's College Cambridge University (M.A. 1975). From July 2014 to August 2015 Dr. Obstfeld served as a Member of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers. Among Dr. Obstfeld's honors are Tilburg University's Tjalling Koopmans Asset Award the John von Neumann Award of the Rajk Laszlo College of Advanced Studies (Budapest) and the Kiel Institute's Bernhard Harms Prize. Dr. Obstfeld has served both on the Executive Committee and as Vice President of the American Economic Association. He has consulted and taught at the IMF and numerous central banks around the world.

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