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Simon Johnson is the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He is also a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C., a co-founder of BaselineScenario.com, a widely cited website on the global economy, and is a member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Economic Advisers.

Mr. Johnson appears regularly on NPR's Planet Money podcast in the Economist House Calls feature, is a weekly contributor to NYT.com's Economix, and has a video blog feature on The New Republic's website. He is co-director of the NBER project on Africa and President of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies (term of office 2008-2009).

From March 2007 through the end of August 2008, Professor Johnson was the International Monetary Fund's Economic Counsellor (chief economist) and Director of its Research Department. At the IMF, Professor Johnson led the global economic outlook team, helped formulate innovative responses to worldwide financial turmoil, and was among the earliest to propose new forms of engagement for sovereign wealth funds. He was also the first IMF chief economist to have a blog.

His PhD is in economics from MIT, while his MA is from the University of Manchester and his BA is from the University of Oxford.

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Simon Johnson's Latest Articles | 101

Too Politically Connected to Fail in Any Crisis

Oct 8, 2009| 

Over the past 30 years Wall Street captured the thinking of official Washington, persuading policymakers on both sides of the aisle not to regulate (derivatives),... Read »

Did Anything Happen in Istanbul?

Oct 6, 2009| 

Sunday’s communique from the International Monetary and Financial Committee (of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund) is incredibly bland,... Read »

Should Goldman Sachs Be Placed in the ‘Too-Big-to-Regulate’ Category?

Oct 3, 2009| 

At the height of the financial panic last fall Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) became a bank holding company, which enabled it to borrow directly from the Federal Reserve.... Read »

Can G20 Bring Legitimacy to International Economic Policy Discussions

Sep 29, 2009| 

Strong advocates of our new G20 process are convinced that it will bring legitimacy to international economic policy discussions, rule-making, and crisis interventions.... Read »

Raising Capital Standards in the US is Going to Be a Long and Drawn Out Fight

Sep 27, 2009| 

It is easy to dismiss the G20 communique and all the associated spin as empty waffle. Ask people in a month what was accomplished in Pittsburgh and you’ll get... Read »

The IMF Should Move to Europe

Sep 25, 2009| 

The headline news from the G20 summit in Pittsburgh is that progress has been made on “IMF reform,” meaning increased voting power for emerging markets relative... Read »

G20 won’t Be Worth its Carbon Footprint if Financial Sector Vulnerabilities are not Addressed

Sep 22, 2009| 

It looks like the G20 on Friday will emphasize its new “framework” for curing macroeconomic imbalances, rather than any substantive measures to regulate banks,... Read »

US Strategy for the G20: You Cannot Be Serious

Sep 21, 2009| 

According to the WSJ this morning (top of p.A1), the US is pushing hard for the G20 to adopt and implement a “Framework for Sustainable and Balanced Growth,”... Read »

Jam the Revolving Wall Street-Washington Door

Sep 20, 2009| 1

Ben Bernanke has a great opportunity to lead the reform of our financial system.  His standing in Washington and on Wall Street is at an all-time high, as a result... Read »

Put the Banks Back in Their Regulatory Box or They Will Bankrupt Us All

Sep 15, 2009| 

President Obama’s speech yesterday was disappointing. As a diagnosis of the problems that let us into financial crisis, it was his clearest and best effort so... Read »

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