Today we welcome new member Maurice Obstfeld to BWC!

Maurice Obstfeld is the C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Class of 1958 Professor of Economics Emeritus at UC Berkeley. Previously, he was a Member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, and an honorary adviser to the Bank of Japan’s Institute of Monetary and Economic Studies.

Professor Obstfeld is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association and is active as a Distinguished Fellow of the Paris-based Centre for Economic Policy Research and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

We appreciate his support for our work and mission, and we look forward to his engagement!