Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

Penny Goldberg
Chief Economist of the World Bank
In office
26 November 2018  1 March 2020
PresidentJim Yong Kim
Kristalina Georgieva (Acting)
David Malpass
Preceded byShanta Devarajan (Acting)
Succeeded byAart Kraay (Acting)
Personal details
Born
Pinelopi Koujianou

1963 (age 6162)
Athens, Greece
Children2
EducationUniversity of Freiburg (Diplom)
Stanford University (MA, PhD)
AwardsBodossaki Prize in Social Sciences (2003)
Guggenheim Fellow (2010–2011)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014)
National Academy of Sciences (2019)
Academic work
DisciplineInternational economics
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Columbia University
Yale University
Website

Pinelopi "Penny" Koujianou Goldberg (born 1963) is a Greek-American economist who served as chief economist of the World Bank from 2018 until 2020. She holds the named chair of Elihu Professor of Economics at Yale University. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.