Willem Buiter

Willem Buiter
Willem Buiter 1984.jpg
Buiter in 1984
Born (1949-09-26) 26 September 1949 (age 72)
The Hague, Netherlands
NationalityAmerican; British
InstitutionPrinceton University
London School of Economics
University of Bristol
Yale University
University of Cambridge
Columbia University
FieldEconomics, Finance, Political Economy
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Yale University
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Willem Hendrik Buiter CBE (born 26 September 1949) is an American-British economist.[1] He spent most of his career as an academic, teaching at various universities. More recently, he was Chief Economist at Citigroup.[2]

Early life and education

Buiter was born in The Hague, Netherlands on 26 September 1949. He is a national of the United States and the United Kingdom.[3] Willem's father, Harm Buiter, was a Dutch economist, international trades union official and politician of the Labour Party (PvdA), who had served as Mayor of Groningen.[4]

Buiter went to the European School in Brussels, Belgium from 1962 to 1967, where he obtained his European Baccalaureate.[1] After studying Political and Social Science for one year at the University of Amsterdam from 1967 to 1968, Buiter went to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to study Economics and received his B.A. with First-Class Honours in 1971. He was awarded his M.A. in Economics in 1972 and his M.Phil. in Economics in 1973, his fields of concentration being International Economics, and Economic Development.

Buiter was awarded his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, in 1975. His thesis, "Temporary Equilibrium and Long-Run Equilibrium," was subsequently published in 1979.

Career

From 1975 to 1976 and 1977 to 1979, Buiter was an Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. From 1976 to 1977, he was lecturer in Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 1980 until 1982, he was Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol.

1977년부터 2011년까지 그는 국가경제연구국의 금융시장과 통화경제 프로그램 연구위원이었다.[5]

1982년 4월 1일, 부이터는 돈과 은행을 특별히 참고하여 런던경제대학의 경제학과 캐슬 교수로 임명되었다. 1985년부터 1994년까지 코네티컷주 뉴헤이븐에 있는 예일대학에서 경제학을 가르치기 위해 1985년 LSE를 떠났다.[1] 1989년 부이터는 네덜란드 왕립 예술 과학 아카데미의 특파원이 되었다.[6]

부이터는 1994년 케임브리지 트리니티 칼리지의 펠로우와 케임브리지 대학의 국제 거시경제학 교수로 임명되면서 미국을 떠나 2000년 5월까지 재직했다. 1997년 6월부터 2000년 5월까지 영국은행 통화정책위원회의 외부위원이었다. 2000년 6월 유럽재건개발은행(European Bank for Reconstruction and Development)에서 이코노미스트 수석 겸 대통령 특별보좌관이 되어 2005년 8월까지 재직했다. 부이테르 교수는 2005년 9월부터 2009년 5월까지 런던경제정치대학 유럽연구소의 유럽정치경제학 교수로 재직했다. 2005년부터 2010년까지 부이터는 골드만삭스 인터내셔널의 국제고문이었다.[7]

부이터는 파이낸셜 타임즈의 기고자로, 2009년 12월까지 "마베레콘"[8]이라는 제목의 블로그를 썼다. 2008년 4월, 그는 아내 앤 시버트와 함께 랜드스뱅크이를 위한 아이슬란드 은행들의 상황에 대한 논문을 썼다.[9] 2008년 7월 중순, 아이슬란드 정부에 업데이트된 버전이 발표되었다.[10] 아이슬란드 통신사들은 이 논문이 시장에 너무 민감하다고 생각했고 기밀로 유지하기로 합의했다.[10]

2009년 6월부터 2011년 8월까지 LSE 경제성과센터의 정치경제학 교수로 재직했다. 2010년 1월, 부이터는 8개월 전에 미국 재무부와 함께 일하기 위해 자리를 비운 루이스 알렉산더를 대신하여 씨티그룹에 수석 이코노미스트로 합류했다. 부이터는 앞서 2009년 4월 블로그 글에서 씨티그룹에 대해 "금융 스펙트럼 전반에 걸쳐 최악의 관행이 복합된 것"이라고 설명한 바 있다.[11]

Buiter was elected fellow of the European Economic Association.[12] He is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.[13]

Other activities

Personal life

In 1973 Buiter was married to Jean Archer. The marriage was dissolved in 1997. They had two children, David Michael Alejandro, born on 22 February 1991 in Callao, Peru, and Elizabeth Lorca, born 6 August 1993 in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Buiter, since 5 June 1998[1] is married to Anne Sibert, professor of Economics at Birkbeck, University of London, who was also an External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Iceland from 2009 until 2012. Sibert, on account of her criticism on the banking system and European finances for the Centre for Economic Policy Research,[15] has been called "a commentator who cannot easily be ignored."[1][16]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Willem Hendrik Buiter". Willembuiter.com. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
  2. ^ "Professor Willem H Buiter - Professor Willem H Buiter - Academic Staff - Staff - European Institute - Home". .lse.ac.uk. 5 February 2010. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
  3. ^ http://www.nber.org/~wbuiter/personal.htm
  4. ^ "Oud-burgemeester Groningen Harm Buiter overleden ("Former mayor of Groningen, Harm Buiter, deceased"" (in Dutch). Elsevier.nl. 23 February 2011.
  5. ^ LSE Magazine, November 1982, No 42, p.4
  6. ^ "Willem Buiter". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 4 September 2017.
  7. ^ "Willem Buiter". EconoMonitor. 26 April 2010. Retrieved 4 October 2013.
  8. ^ "willem buiter's maverecon". Blogs.ft.com. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
  9. ^ "All in the family willem buiter's maverecon". Blogs.ft.com. 8 March 2009. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
  10. ^ a b "The Icelandic banking crisis and what to do about it". Archived from the original on 8 November 2008. Retrieved 19 March 2009.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  11. ^ Craig Stirling and Bradley Keoun (30 November 2009). "Willem Buiter Will Join Citigroup as Chief Economist". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 27 January 2011.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  12. ^ "Fellows EEA". www.eeassoc.org. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  13. ^ "Is the US economy running out of slack?". Jordan Times. 31 July 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  14. ^ Advisory Scientific Committee (ASC) European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB).
  15. ^ "The damaged ECB legitimacy vox". Voxeu.org. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
  16. ^ Smith, Yves (15 September 2011). "Anne Sibert: The damaged ECB legitimacy". naked capitalism. Retrieved 18 April 2014.

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