Prior to joining LSE, Paul De Grauwe was Professor of International Economics at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He was a member of the Belgian parliament
from 1991 to 2003. He is honorary doctor of the University of Sankt Gallen (Switzerland), of the University of Turku (Finland), and the University of Genoa.
He obtained his PhD from the Johns Hopkins University in 1974. He was a visiting professor at various universities- the University of Paris, the University
of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania, Humboldt University Berlin, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the Université Catholique de Louvain, the University
of Amsterdam, the University of Milan, Tilburg University, the University of Kiel. He was also a visiting scholar at the IMF, the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve, the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank.
He was a member of the Group of Economic Policy Analysis, advising President Barroso. He is also director of the money, macro and international finance research
network of CESifo, University of Munich. He is a research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels.
His research interests are international monetary relations, monetary integration, theory and empirical analysis of the foreign-exchange markets, and open-economy macroeconomics.
Martin Guzman obtained his PhD. in Economics from Brown University. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and an Assistant Professor at Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina). He is also a member of the Institute for New Economic Thinking Taskforce on Macroeconomic Efficiency and Stability, chaired by Professor Joseph Stiglitz. His fields of research are macroeconomics, with emphasis on financial crises, monetary economics, and economic growth.
Daniel Heymann is Director of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Economic Research (IIEP BAIRES), a joint project of the University of Buenos Aires and the National Research Commission of Argentina (Conicet). He is also Professor of Economics at the Universities of Buenos Aires, San Andrés and La Plata. His research interests and extensive publications cover the areas of macroeconomics, development, and complex system analysis. He received bachelor degrees in Economics and Physics from the University of Buenos Aires and a PhD in Economics from UCLA. He has been president of the Argentine Association of Political Economy (2008- 2010) and is member of the Argentine Academy of Economic Sciences.
Lars Jonung is Senior Professor at Lund University, Lund, Sweden, and chairman of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council since 2011. He was Research Adviser 2000-2010 at DG ECFIN, European Commission, Brussels, where he focused on macroeconomic and financial issues related to the euro. He was previously professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics and served as Chief Economic Advisor to Prime Minister Carl Bildt, 1992-1994. Jonung’s research concerns monetary and fiscal policies, financial crises and the history of economic thought. He has published in the American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking as well as in other scientific journals. Most recently, he published as editor The Great Financial Crisis in Finland and Sweden (with Jaakko Kiander and Pentia Vartia as co-editors). He is co-author of Makroekonomi. Teori, politik och institutioner, the leading undergraduate textbook in macroeconomics in Sweden. He received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1975. He has contributed to Swedish public debate for a long time.
Axel Stig Bengt Leijonhufvud was born in Sweden. He came to the United States in 1960 to do graduate work and obtained his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He taught at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1964 to 1994 and served repeatedly as Chairman of the Economics Department. In 1991, he started the Center for Computable Economics at UCLA and remained its Director until 1997. In 1995 he was appointed Professor of Monetary Theory and Policy at the University of Trento, Italy. His research has particularly dealt with the limits to an economy's ability to coordinate activities as revealed by great depressions, high inflations and (recently) transitions from socialist towards market economies.
Katharina Pistor is Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where she teaches Corporations, Lawyering in Multiple Legal Orders, Globalization in Comparative Perspective, and Law and Capitalism. She also serves as a member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Pistor previously taught at the Kennedy School of Government and has held research positions at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and at the Harvard Institute for International Development in Cambridge, MA. Her research focuses on comparative law and institutional development with special emphasis on corporate governance and financial market development. She has conducted several studies on the legal framework for the evolving corporate governance regime in transition economies, including field research of privatized firms and financial intermediaries in Russia. Pistor has published widely on comparative legal developments. Recent work include “Enhancing Corporate Governance in the New Member States: Does EU Law Help?" in Law and Governance in an Enlarged Europe. G. Berman and K. Pistor (eds.) (2004); "Governing Stock Markets in Transition Economies: Lessons from China (with Xu)", American Law and Economics Review (2005); “Trade, Law and Product Complexity” (with Berkowitz and Moenius), Review of Economics and Statistics (2006); “The Law and the Non-Law”, Michigan Journal of International Law (2006).
Full Professor, Department of Economics and Management, University of Trento, from 2001.
Head of the Department of Economics, University of Trento, 2001-2007.
2010-...: Academic director of the Doctoral Program in Economics and Management, CIFREM, Università di Trento
Research in recent years has mainly concentrated on macroeconomic theories and policies, money and financial markets, policies and institutions.
In the field of macroeconomic theories, particular attention has been devoted to the microeconomic foundations, with particular regard to decision-making
under uncertainty, incomplete information, bounded rationality. In the monetary and financial field, research has focused on new theories of imperfect capital
markets, based on asymmetric information or on bounded rationality, and their implication for economic activity. Macro-policy research has mainly concerned the
debate on the Maastricht Treaty and the creation of the European Monetary Union, in particular the fiscal-monetary policy-mix problems ensuing from imperfect
markets as analyzed in the above-mentioned research fields. Research activity has mainly been carried out jointly with groups financed by national and international agencies.
Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Copenhagen
Niels Thygesen is an economist from Denmark. Having trained in Copenhagen, Paris and at Harvard, he became Professor at
the University of Copenhagen 1971-2004, and is now an Emeritus there. He has worked primarily on European monetary and financial
integration, and served on several expert groups, academic and official, throughout the past four decades, including as an independent
member of the group of mainly central bank governors which prepared the plan for Economic and Monetary Union in 1988-89. He has been an
adviser to the central bank of Denmark, the Danish and Swedish governments, the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund
(to coauthor a review of IMF advice up to the Asian crisis) and the OECD; he was Chairman of the Economic Development and Review
Committee in the OECD 2000-8. He served on several corporate boards, notably for the Maersk Line and the Novo-Nordisk Foundation,
and as an Executive Committee member of the Trilateral Commission. He is Chairman of the INET Center for Imperfect Knowledge Economics at the University of Copenhagen.