For more than 20 years, Simon Johnson has worked on crisis prevention and economic recovery around the world. He is currently the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT's Sloan School of Management and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C. He is also a member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Economic Advisers.
Johnson co-founded BaselineScenario.com, a leading economic blog, dedicated to explanation and discussion of economics, finance, and public policy. He recently co-authored, with James Kwak, 13 Bankers, a book which offers an in-depth explanation of the factors that led to the financial crisis, and identifies the factors that set the stage for another financial crisis, another government bailout, and another increase in our national debt. He is a weekly contributor to NYTimes.com's Economix, has a monthly column with Project Syndicate that runs in publications around the world, and has published high impact opinion pieces in The Atlantic, The New Republic, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, and The Financial Times, among other publications. In January 2010, he joined The Huffington Post as contributing business editor.
Johnson was previously chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, president of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies, and a member of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Advisory Committee on Market Information. He is a sought-after commentator on current financial and economic issues, and has recently appeared on programs such as Bill Moyers Journal, PBS NewsHour, This American Life, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, On Point with Tom Ashbrook, The Diane Rehm Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, and The Colbert Report. He also writes a weekly column for the New York Times' Economix blog.
Professor Johnson received a B.A. in Economics and Politics from the University of Oxford, an M.A. in Economics from the University of Manchester, and a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.
