Willem H. Buiter

Willem Buiter is an independent economic consultant and speaker. He is currently a Visiting Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations. He was Global Chief Economist at Citigroup from 2010 to 2018 and a Special Economic Advisor at Citigroup from 2018 to 2019. Previously, he was Chief Economist and Special Counsellor to the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and an original member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England. He was the Juan T. Trippe Professor of International Economics at Yale University and has also held professorships at the London School of Economics and Cambridge University. He is the author of 78 refereed articles in professional journals and seven books.

"Past Interest Rates and Future Growth Rates," 13 January 2020, Project Syndicate.

"When Central Banks Go Green," 2 January 2020, Project Syndicate.

"Making the Best of a Bad Brexit," 27 December 2019, Project Syndicate.

Santelli Exchange: Unsustainable Federal Debt and ‘Helicopter’ Money, 19 December 2019, CNBC.

"Financial Stability Should Be Central Banking’s Prime Objective," 11 December 2019, Project Syndicate.

"The Federal Reserve Will Have to be Creative in the Next Recession," 8 December 2019, Financial Times.

Managing the Financial Risks of Climate Change," with Benjamin Nabarro, Global Perspectives & Solutions Citi GPS Insight, 2 October 2019.

What is Coming Up

Central Banks as Fiscal Actors; the Drivers of Monetary and Fiscal Policy Space, forthcoming Cambridge University Press.

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