Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

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Bibliographic details

• Published: February 8, 2022

IMF roles and tenure

• Served as Economic Counsellor and Director of Research of the International Monetary Fund until June 30, 2026.
• Former editor-in-chief of the IMF Economic Review from its creation in 2009 to 2016.
• Managing editor of the Journal of International Economics between 2017 and 2019.
• Co-editor of the American Economic Review between 2019 and 2022.

Academic positions and affiliations

• On leave from the University of California at Berkeley, where he is the S.K. and Angela Chan Professor of Global Management in the Department of Economics and at the Haas School of Business.
• On leave from the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he was director of the International Finance and Macroeconomics program.
• Research Fellow with the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London.
• Fellow of the Econometric Society.
• Previously taught at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Princeton University before joining UC Berkeley Department of Economics in 2003.

Research interests and recent focus

• Main research interests: international macroeconomics and finance.
• Recent research topics:
  • Scarcity of global safe assets.
  • Global imbalances and currency wars.
  • International Monetary System and the role of the U.S. dollar.
  • Dominant Currency Paradigm.
  • Determinants of capital flows to and from developing countries.
  • International portfolios.
  • Global financial crisis.
  • Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures.

Awards, advisory roles, and recognitions

• Laureate of the 2007 Bernácer Prize for best European economist working in macroeconomics and finance under the age of 40.
• Laureate of the 2008 Prix du Meilleur Jeune Economiste for best French economist under the age of 40.
• Member of the French Council of Economic Advisors to the Prime Minister in 2012-2013.

Education and background

• Attended Ecole Polytechnique.
• Received PhD in Economics in 1996 from MIT.
• Grew up in Montpellier, France.

References

• IMF Senior Officials