Maurice Obstfeld is the C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Class of 1958 Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined Berkeley in 1989 as Professor, following appointments at Columbia University (1979–1986) and the University of Pennsylvania (1986–1989). He was also a Visiting Professor at Harvard University between 1989 and 1991.
He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979, following degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Cambridge. From 2014 to 2015, he served as a Member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, and from 2015 to 2018 he was Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund. Before that, he was an Honorary Adviser to the Bank of Japan’s Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies. Professor Obstfeld joined the Peterson Institute as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow in 2019.
Among his honours are the Frank Graham Memorial Lecture at Princeton, the inaugural Mundell–Fleming Lecture at the International Monetary Fund, the Bernhard Harms Prize and Lecture of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, the L. K. Jha Memorial Lecture at the Reserve Bank of India, the Richard T. Ely Lecture of the American Economic Association, the Harry Johnson Lecture of the Money, Macro and Finance Society, and the Andrew Crockett Memorial Lecture at the Bank for International Settlements.
Professor Obstfeld is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2023, he was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association. He is also a Distinguished Fellow of the Paris-based Centre for Economic Policy Research and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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