Simon Johnson (economist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Simon Johnson (economist)

economist

Date of Birth: 16-Jan-1963

Place of Birth: Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Profession: economist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Simon H.
Johnson (born January 16, 1963) is a British American economist.
He is the Ronald A.
Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
He has held a wide variety of academic and policy-related positions, including Professor of Economics at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.
From March 2007 through the end of August 2008, he was Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund.He is author, with James Kwak, of the 2010 book 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown (ISBN 978-0307379054), with whom he has also co-founded and regularly contributes to the economics blog The Baseline Scenario.