Olivier Blanchard
Olivier Blanchard | |
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Blanchard in 2008 | |
| Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund | |
| In office 1 September 2008 – 8 September 2015 | |
| President | Dominique Strauss-Kahn Christine Lagarde |
| Preceded by | Simon Johnson |
| Succeeded by | Maurice Obstfeld |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Olivier Jean Blanchard 27 December 1948 Amiens, France |
| Education | ESCP Business School (BA) Paris Dauphine University (MA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Academic background | |
| Doctoral advisor | Stanley Fischer |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Macroeconomics |
| School or tradition | New Keynesian economics |
| Institutions | Peterson Institute for International Economics (since 2015) International Monetary Fund (2008–2015) Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral students | Fumio Hayashi Nobuhiro Kiyotaki Roland Bénabou Michael C. Burda Ricardo J. Caballero Jordi Galí Anil Kashyap Gilles Saint-Paul Janice Eberly Charles I. Jones David Laibson Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas Robert Shimer Augustin Landier Justin Wolfers Thomas Philippon |
| Website | |
Olivier Jean Blanchard (French: [blɑ̃ʃaʁ]; born December 27, 1948) is a French economist and professor. He is Robert M. Solow Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics, and as the C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.