Olivier Blanchard

Olivier Blanchard
Blanchard in 2008
Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund
In office
1 September 2008  8 September 2015
PresidentDominique Strauss-Kahn
Christine Lagarde
Preceded bySimon Johnson
Succeeded byMaurice Obstfeld
Personal details
Born
Olivier Jean Blanchard

(1948-12-27) 27 December 1948
Amiens, France
EducationESCP Business School (BA)
Paris Dauphine University (MA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Academic background
Doctoral advisorStanley Fischer
Academic work
DisciplineMacroeconomics
School or traditionNew Keynesian economics
InstitutionsPeterson Institute for International Economics (since 2015)
International Monetary Fund (2008–2015)
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral studentsFumio 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.