Willem Buiter is an independent economic adviser. Since 2015 he is Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in New York. Since 2014 he is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
He was Special Economic Adviser at Citigroup from 2018 till 2019. From 2010 till 2018 he was Global Chief Economist at Citigroup.
He was a founding external member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England from 1997 till 2000, Chief Economist and Special Counselor to the President at the EBRD from 2000 till 2005 and an Adviser to Goldman Sachs from 2005 till 2009. He has been an adviser to the IMF, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the European Commission, central banks, finance ministries and corporations across the world. He is a member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European System Risk Board (ESRB).
He has a BA from Cambridge University and a Ph. D. in Economics from Yale University. He has held full-time professorial appointments at Princeton University, the University of Bristol, the LSE, Yale University and Cambridge University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. He was awarded a CBE for “services to economics’ in 2000. In 2012 he received a Honorary Doctorate from the University of Amsterdam.
He has published six books on economics, with a seventh forthcoming. He has written several hundred articles on monetary economics, open economy macroeconomics, international finance and public finance. He is a frequently commentator on global economic developments.
