Olivier Blanchard
French macroeconomist; IMF chief economist from 2008 to 2015; MIT professor emeritus.
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- Olivier Blanchard is a French economist and one of the leading figures of New Keynesian macroeconomics.
- He taught at Harvard from 1977 to 1983 and at MIT from 1983, where he is Robert M.
- Solow Professor Emeritus.
- He was chief economist of the International Monetary Fund from September 2008 to 2015, through the financial and euro-area crises; his 2012 work with Daniel Leigh on fiscal multipliers led the IMF to reassess its austerity advice.
- He is the C.
- Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute and, from 2023, a professor at the Paris School of Economics.
Key facts
- Born
- 27 December 1948, Amiens, France1
- IMF
- Chief economist (Economic Counsellor and Head of the Research Department), September 2008 to 20151
- MIT
- Professor from 1983 (full professor 1985); economics department chair, 1998 to 2003; Robert Solow Professor, 2010 to 2020, then emeritus1
- Now
- C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics (from 2015); professor, Paris School of Economics (from 2023)1
- Before
- Assistant, then associate professor at Harvard, 1977 to 19831
- Education
- DES in economics, University of Nanterre (1972); PhD, MIT (1977), under Stanley Fischer and Robert Solow1
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