Dr. Barry Eichengreen

Biography

Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee & Helen N. Pardee Chair and Distinguished Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been teaching since 1987. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Eichengreen has served as a Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has held Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships and has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. His research focuses on economic history, international economics, exchange rates, capital flows, and the impact of China on the international economic and financial system. Eichengreen has authored and edited several influential books, including "Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era" and has contributed regular columns to Project Syndicate. His teaching and contributions to the field have been recognized with multiple awards, including the Economic History Association's Jonathan R.T. Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 2002 and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Social Science Division of the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004.

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