birth_place school_tradition influences color nationality article_title institution field birth_date repec_prefix repec_id name alma_mater
new york city new keynesian economics rudi dornbusch darkorange united states maurice obstfeld
 university of california , berkeley international economics 19 march 1952 e pob13 maurice obstfeld mit king 's college , cambridge university of pennsylvania
maurice obstfeld

maurice moses `` maury '' obstfeld -lrb- born 1952 -rrb- is a professor of economics at the university of california , berkeley .
he is well known for his work in international economics .
he is among the most influential economists in the world according to ideas/repec .
he graduated from pennsylvania `` summa cum laude '' , cambridge and mit .
director of the center for international and development economic research -lrb- cider -rrb- .
he joined berkeley in 1989 as a professor , following appointments at columbia -lrb- 1979 -- 1986 -rrb- and the university of pennsylvania -lrb- 1986 -- 1989 -rrb- .
he was also a visiting professor at harvard between 1989 and 1991 .
he received his ph.d. from mit in 1979 .
obstfeld serves as honorary advisor to the bank of japan 's institute of monetary and economic studies .
among obstfeld 's honors are the carroll round keynote lecture , woodward lecture , and bernhard harms prize and lecture in 2004 .
obstfeld is a fellow of the econometric society and the american academy of arts and sciences .
he is active as a research fellow of cepr , a research associate at nber , and an international research fellow at the kiel institute for the world economy .
on june 3 , 2014 , the white house announced that obstfeld would join the council of economic advisers as lead macroeconomist .
on july 20 , 2015 , christine lagarde , managing director of the international monetary fund -lrb- imf -rrb- , announced her intention to appoint obstfeld as economic counsellor and director of the imf 's research department .
obstfeld succeeds olivier blanchard whose retirement was announced previously .
he is expected to begin his work at the fund on september 8 , 2015 .
