Adam Posen

Adam Posen
Member of the Monetary Policy Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office  1 September 2009
Governor	Mervyn King
Profession	Economist

Adam S. Posen (born in Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American economist, a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England (2009 - present) and senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (1997 - present, deputy director 2007 - 2009). He also sits on the panel of economic advisers to the United States Congressional Budget Office.^[1]

Posen's other positions include being a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and theTrilateral Commission, a research associate of the Center for the Japanese Economy and Business of Columbia University, a fellow of the CESifo Research Network.^[2]He has been the recipient of major research grants from the European Commission, the Sloan Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He is currently married and living in London.^[1]

Biography

Posen received a PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellow, graduating from Harvard College in 1988. His research focuses on macroeconomic policy in the industrial democracies, G3 economic relations, and central banking issues. He has been a consultant to the IMF and to several US government agencies, and a visiting scholar at central banks worldwide. From 1994 to 1997, he was an economist in international research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Okun Memorial Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution from 1993 to 1994. He was a Bosch Foundation Fellow in Germany in 1992 to 1993, and worked for the Bundesbank in Frankfurt and for Deutsche Bank in Berlin. He has also been a Public Policy Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin (2001).^[2] In 2006 he was a Houblon-Norman Senior Fellow at the Bank of England.^[3]

Writing

Posen also writes monthly columns for the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag and Eurointelligence syndicate, and has previously contributed to the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, National Journal, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Die Zeit, and Nihon Keizai Shimbun. His most cited publications include the books Restoring Japan's Economic Growth (1998) and Inflation Targeting: Lessons from the International Experience (1999, co-authored with Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in the US, et al), and a series of articles on the political economy of central bank independence, as well as more recent works on the global role of the euro.^[3]

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Department of State document "After the conventions: the race to the White House" by the US mission to Germany (retrieved on 3 April 2010).

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