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Simon Johnson
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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
via Wikipedia infobox
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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Simon
- Family name
- Johnson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Sheffield
- Occupation
- economist
- Position held
- chief economist
- Educated at
- University of Manchester
- Employer
- Duke University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Rudi Dornbusch
- Image
- Simon Johnson, 2024 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics 4 (cropped).jpg
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- 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.