William Easterly, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

William Easterly

American economist and author

Date of Birth: 07-Sep-1957

Place of Birth: Morgantown, West Virginia, United States

Profession: economist, university teacher, academic

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

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William Russell Easterly (born September 7, 1957) is an American economist, specializing in economic development.
He is a Professor of Economics at New York University, joint with Africa House, and Co-Director of NYU’s Development Research Institute.
He is a Research Associate of NBER, senior fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) of Duke University, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC.
Easterly is an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Growth. He is the author of three books: The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor (2014), which was a finalist for the 2015 Hayek Prize, The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (2006), which won the 2008 Hayek Prize, and The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (2001). Easterly maintained a blog called Aid Watch where he posted regularly about aid related issues.
The blog was active between January 2009 and May 2011.He has also spoken at the Templeton Foundation with Dambisa Moyo as well as written in the press to respond to critics such as Jeffrey Sachs.