Maurice Obstfeld

Class of 1958 Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley; Director, Center for International and Development Economic Research

Maurice Obstfeld is the Class of 1958 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and the Director of the Center for International and Development Economic Research. He received a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979.

Before joining Berkeley, Obstfeld was a professor at Columbia University from 1979-1986 and the University of Pennsylvania 1986-1989. He was also a visiting professor at Harvard between 1989 and 1991. He has served as a consultant for the IMF, World Bank, European Commission, and several other banks, and currently serves as honorary advisor to the Bank of Japan’s Institute of Monetary and Economic Studies. Professor Obstfeld is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is an active research Fellow at the National Bureau of Research, a research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and an International Research Fellow at the Kiel Institute of World Economics. His current research topics include dynamic open-economy models with nominal rigidities, exchange rates and international financial crises, and monetary policy in open economics.