Professor of Economics, London Business School Fellow of the British Academy
Hélène Rey is Professor of Economics at London Business School. Until 2007, Prof. Rey worked at Princeton University as Professor of Economics and International Affairs simultaneously at both the Department of Economics and the Woodrow Wilson School. Her research focuses on the determinants and consequences of external trade and financial imbalances, financial crisis theory and the organization of the international monetary system. She has demonstrated in particular that a country’s gross external asset positions help predict current account adjustments and the exchange rate. In 2005 she was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. She received the 2006 Bernácer Prize (for the best European economist working in macroeconomics and finance under the age of 40). In 2012 she received the inaugural Birgit Grodal Award from the European Economic Association honoring a European-based female economist who has made a significant contribution to the profession of Economics. In 2013 she received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award (for a European economist under 45 years old who has made a contribution in theoretical and applied research that is significant to economics in Europe), shared with Thomas Piketty.
Prof. Rey is a Fellow of the British Academy. She is on the board of the Review of Economic Studies and associate editor of the AEJ: Macroeconomics Journal. She has been elected member-at-large of the Council of the European Economic Association. She is a CEPR Research Fellow and an NBER Research Associate. She is on the Board of the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel, a member of the Commission Economique de la Nation and of the Bellagio Group on the international economy. She was a member of the Conseil d’Analyse Economique until 2012. She writes a regular column for the French newspaper Les Echos.
Prof. Hélène Rey received her undergraduate degree from ENSAE, a Master in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University and her PhDs from the London School of Economics and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
