Willem Hendrik Buiter
Nationality: USA and UK. I lost—to my chagrin—the Dutch citizenship of my birth, because the Dutch constitution adheres to the common but benighted school of thought which holds that if you voluntarily take on another nationality, except through marriage, you are deemed to have given up your Dutch citizenship. | |
Married to Anne C. Sibert. | |
Hobbies: Science fiction and fantasy novels, poetry, music, theatre, tennis, open source/free software. |
2013 | FINRA
General Securities Representative (Series 7); FINRA Uniform Securities
Agent State Law Examination (Series 63); FINRA General Securities
Principal (Series 24). |
1975 | Ph.D. in Economics with Distinction. Dissertation: Temporary Equilibrium and Long-Run Equilibrium. Dissertation Committee: James Tobin, Gary Smith, Katsuhito Iwai. Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York, 1979. |
1971 – 1975 | Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. |
1973 | M.Phil. in Economics. Fields of Concentration: International Economics, Economic Development. Distinction in oral examination. |
1972 | M.A. in Economics. |
1971 | B.A. in Economics with First-Class Honours. Awarded Honorary Bachelor Scholarship M.T. Dodds Prize and College Prize by Emmanuel College, Cambridge. |
1968 – 1971 | Cambridge University, Cambridge, England (Emmanuel College). |
1967 – 1968 | Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Propaedeuse Politieke en Sociale Wetenschappen. |
1962 – 1967 | European School, Brussels, Belgium. European Baccalaureate. |
3 December 2019 – present | Independent Economic Advisor, Speaker, Commentator and Expert Witness |
November 2014 – present | Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on
Foreign Relations (CFR), New York. |
September 2015 – June 2022 | Adjunct Professor (September 2015–December 2019, January 2022–June 2022) and Visiting Professor (January 2020–December 2021), School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, New York. |
5 February 2018 – 2 December 2019 |
Special Economic Adviser, Citigroup, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. New York City, USA. |
6 April 2013 – 4 February 2018 |
Global Chief Economist, Citigroup, New York, USA. |
1 January 2010 – 5 April 2013 | Global Chief Economist, Citigroup, Citigroup Centre, London, UK. |
September 2009 – August 2011 | Professor of Political Economy, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. |
September 2005 – August 2009 | Professor of European Political Economy, European Institute, London School of Economcs and Politcal Science, London, UK. |
June 2000 – June 2006 | Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (Nulaanstelling). |
June 2000 – August 2005 | Chief Economist and Special Counsellor to the President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London, UK. |
June 1997 – May 2000 | External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England, London, UK. |
September 1994 – May 2000 | Professor of International Macroeconomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. |
September 1994 – May 2000 | Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, UK. |
1990 – 1994 |
Juan T. Trippe Professor of International Economics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. |
1985 – 1990 | Professor of Economics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. |
1982 – 1985 | Cassel Professor of Economics with Special Reference to Money and Banking, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. |
1980 – 1982 | Professor of Economics, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. |
1979 | Consultant, Financial Studies Division, Research Department, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC, USA. |
1977 – 1979 | Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Economics Department and Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. |
1976 – 1977 | Lecturer in Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. |
1975 – 1976 | Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Economics Department and Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. |
1974 – 1975 | Research Assistant to Professor James Tobin. |
1973 – 1974 | Teaching Assistant (part-time) in the Yale University Macroeconomic Theory course under Professors Gary Smith and James Tobin. |
May 2019 – |
Member of the Advisory Group of
Public Wealth - Detter & Co. |
April 2019 – April 2023 |
Member Advisory Scientific
Committee of the European System Risk Board (ESRB). |
2017 – |
Member of the Bretton Woods
Committee. |
2015 – |
Member, Advisory Board of the
Sam and Irene Black School of Business, Penn State Erie, the Behrend
College. |
2014 – 2019 | Member, Shadow ECB Council of Handelsblatt. |
2014 – 2016 | Member, World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Public Finance and Social Protection Systems. |
November 2014 – December 2019 | Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York. |
2014 – | |
July 2013 - June 2014 | Chair, World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Fiscal Sustainability |
July 2013 – June 2016 | Member, Spinoza-selectiecommissie |
June 2009 – | Member Asian Development Bank’s International Monetary Advisory Group (IMAG) (other members: Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Nirupam Bajpai, Dr. Maria Socorro G. Bautista, Prof. Barry Eichengreen, Dr. Masahiro Kawai, Prof. Felipe Larrain, Prof. Joseph Stiglitz, Prof. Charles Wyplosz, Dr. Yu Yongding) |
May 2009 – | Research Associate, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University, College of Business and Economics, Canberra, Australia |
April 2009 – December 2009 | Member, Supervisory Board, Robeco Groep N. V., Rotterdam, the Netherlands |
October 2008 – | Associate Editor, Journal of Financial Economic Policy |
March 2008 – | Senior Research Associate of the Financial Markets Group, Regulation and Financial Stability Research Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science. |
March 2006 – March 2008 | Member ECB Shadow Council |
February 2006 – | Invited contributing member, Martin Wolf's economists' forum |
June 2006 - December 2009 | Member, Academic Advisory Board, APG Investments (formerly ABP Investments) |
September 2005 – November 2009 | Advisor, Goldman Sachs, International |
September 2005 – December 2009 | Joint Director and owner with Anne C. Sibert of TBE Consulting Limited, a company created to support our economic, financial and monetary advisory and consultancy activities, including frequent public speaking engagements, often organised by Leigh Bureau |
March 2005 – March 2007 | Chair, Council of Economic Advisors, Second Chamber of Parliament, the Netherlands (Voorzitter Raad van Economisch Adviseurs, Tweede Kamer der Staten Generaal, Nederland) |
March 2005 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Council, Kiel Institute for World Economics |
December 2004 – | Member Advisory Board, International Economics Programme, Royal Institute of International Affairs ("Chatham House") |
April 2004 – | Member, Editorial Board, International Economics and Public Policy |
December 2003 – |
Member, Houblon-Norman Fund Advisory Committee |
2003 – 2009 |
Member, Council of Management, National Institute of Economic and Social Research |
October 2003 – | Member, Editoral Board, Journal of Restructuring Finance |
July 2003 – | Member, Council of the Institute for Fiscal Studies |
2002 – | Member, Advisory Panel, India Policy Forum |
2002 |
Kiel Institute Associate, ASP Lecturer and KISSEP Lecturer. |
2002 – | Member, Editorial Board, Journal of International Economics and Public Policy |
2002 – 2003 | International Fellow, CD Howe Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
1999 | Research Fellow, Center for Economic Studies (CESIfo), Munich, Germany |
January 2000 – 2004 | Associate Editor, German Economic Review |
1998 – 2002 | Member, Council of the European Economic Association |
1997 | Consultant, New Zealand Treasury, Sovereign Net Worth & Comprehensive Net Worth |
1997 | Advisory Board Member, International Finance |
1997 – 1998 | Research Fellow, William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor, MI |
1997 | Member, Council of the Royal Economic Society |
1996 | Advisory Editor, Macroeconomic Dynamics |
1996 | Member, EMAC Panel of Independent Advisors, Economic and Monetary Committee of the Parliamentary Group of the Party of European Socialists |
1995 – 1997 | Senior Advisor, Chief Economist's Office, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
1995 | Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Finance and Economics |
1994 | Consultant, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
1994 | Consultant, World Bank, IEC, Project on "Reverse Linkage" |
1994 | Consultant, Inter-American Development Bank, Project on "Fiscal Risk" |
1994 | Consultant, World Bank (PSD), India, Ghana, Poland, Tunisia, Ecuador, Peru |
1993 | Member, Board of Advisors, De Economist |
1993 | Member, Editorial Board, World Bank Research Observer |
1993 | Consultant, World Bank, Ghana |
1993 | Consultant, World Bank, Bolivia |
1993 | Consultant, Interamerican Development Bank, Dominican Republic |
1993 | Member, International Institute of Public Finance |
1992 | Advisor, Banco Central de Reserva del Peru |
1992 | Consultant, Interamerican Development Bank, Ecuador |
1992 | Consultant, Ministry of Coordination and Planning (Cordiplan), Venezula |
August 1992 | Visiting Scholar, Research Department, IMF |
August 1991 | Visiting Scholar, Research Department, IMF |
1991 | Consultant, Asian Department, Work Bank, Inida |
1991 | Consultant, Interamerican Development Bank, Peru |
1991 – 1996 | Member, Editorial Board, European Journal of Political Economy |
1990 – | Academic Associate, Atlantic Council of the USA |
1990 – | Consultant, Latin American and Carribean Department, World Bank, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Central America |
1989 – 1990 | Consultant, Asian Department, World Bank, Philippines |
1898 | Member, Visiting Committee Economics (Evaluation of economics research programs at Dutch universities), appointed by the Dutch Ministry of Education |
1989 – | Chairman, Scientific Council, The Center for Economic Research, Tilburg University, The Netherlands |
1989 – 1991 | Chair, Council on West European Studies, Yale, University |
1988 | Member, Scientific Council, The Center for Economic Research, Tilburg University, The Netherlands |
June 1988 | Visiting Professor, University of Groningen, The Netherlands |
September 1987 – June 1988 | Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science |
July – Septemer 1987 | Consultant, World Bank, World Development Report |
June – July 1986 | Visiting Professor, University of Groningen, The Netherlands |
July – August 1986 | Consultant, Macroeconomics Division, Development Research Department, World Bank |
September 1985 – June 1986 | Consultant, World Bank, World Development Report and EPD |
June – August 1985 | Consultant, External Adjustment Division Research Department, International Monetary Fund |
1985 – 1986 | Member, Verkenningscommissie Economie (Investigative Committee, Economics),appointed by the Dutch Ministry of Education to evaluate economic research at the universities |
1984 - 1985 | Irving Fisher Visiting Professor, Yale University |
August 1984 | Lecturer, Yrjo Jahnsson Foundation, Joint Course on International Economics with Avinash Dixit, Finland |
January and June 1983 | Lecturer, Yrjo Yahnsson Foundation, Joint Course on Macroeconomic Theory with Marcus Miller, Finland |
1983 – 1985 | Director, Programme in International Macroeconomics, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London |
1983 –1985 | Advisor, Commission of the European Economic Community ("Dornbusch Group") |
1983 | Member of the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity |
1982 – September 2011 | Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, Financial Markets and Monetary Economics Program |
July – August 1982 | Visiting Scholar, Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund |
1982 | Member, Monetary Affairs Study Group, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels |
1982 | Specialist Adviser, House of Commons Select Service Committee of the Treasury and Civil Service, Enquiry into International Monetary Arrangements |
1981 | Member, Brookings Panel on Economic Activity |
1980 | Member, SSRC Money Study Group Committee |
1980 – 1985 | Associate Editor, Economic Journal |
1980 | Specialist Adviser, House of Commons Select Service Committee on the Treasury and Civil Service, Enquiry into Monetary Policy |
June 1980 | Co-chairman, Conference on Control and Economics, Princeton, New Jersey |
1979 – September 2011 | Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research International Studies Program |
1978 | Associate Editor, World Politics |
1977 | Consultant, Oxford Analytica Ltd |
1976 | Consultant, AT & T Management Training |
2019 |
Honorary Fellow, National
Institute of Economic and Social Research - NIESR |
2013 | Foreign member, Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Royal Society of Sciences of Holland) |
2012 | Honorary Doctorate from the University of Amsterdam (Universiteit van Amsterdam) "For his important contributions to macroeconomic research, monetary and macroeconomic policy and the public debate on these issues" |
2004 | Fellow of the European Economic Association |
2000 | Awarded the Mr N.G. Piersonpenning (the N.G. Pierson medal), jointly with Johannes Witteveen, for contributions to economics |
2000 | Awarded CBE for "services to economics" |
1998 | Fellow of the British Academy |
1995 | Winner of the "Dr. Hendrik Muller Prijs", a prize for the behavioral and social sciences awarded by the "Dr. Hendrik Muller's Vaderlands Fonds" on the recommendation of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences |
1993 | Winner of the 1993 Second Annual Award of the Sanwa monograph on international financial markets (with Giancarlo Corsetti and Paolo A. Pesenti) |
1989 | Correspondent van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (Correspondent Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences) |