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Also known as Simon Henry Roberts Johnson, Simon H. R. Johnson, Simon H. Johnson

British-American economist (born 1963)

Key facts

President
Rodrigo Rato , Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Preceded by
Raghuram Rajan
Succeeded by
Olivier Blanchard
Born
( 1963-01-16 ) January 16, 1963 (age 63) , Sheffield , England , UK
Education
Corpus Christi College, Oxford ( BA ) University of Manchester ( MA ) Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( PhD )
Awards
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2024)
Thesis
Inflation, Intermediation, and Economic Activity (1989)
Doctoral advisor
Rudiger Dornbusch
Discipline
Political economy , Development economics
Website
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

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Nobel Prize

  • The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel2024

    “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”

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Instance of
human
Given name
Simon
Family name
Johnson
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Sheffield
Occupation
economist
Position held
chief economist
Languages spoken
English language
Academic degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctoral advisor
Rudi Dornbusch
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Simon Johnson, 2024 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics 4 (cropped).jpg
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date of birth
1963-01-16
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Simon Johnson
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Simon Johnson (economist)
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Encyclopedic overview

Simon H. Johnson (born January 16, 1963) is a British-American economist who has served as the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management since 2004. He also served as a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics from 2008 to 2019. Before moving to MIT, he taught at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business from 1991 to 1997. From March 2007 through the end of August 2008, he served as 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 for their comparative studies in prosperity between nations.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Simon Johnson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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