Olivier Blanchard
French economist, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.
Quick facts
- Current role
- Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
- Organization
- Peterson Institute for International Economics
- Country
- France
- Sector
- Research & Academia
- Forum
- Rhine Group
Olivier Blanchard is a French economist, the Robert M. Solow Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
He served as Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund from 2008 to 2015, and is the author of widely used textbooks on macroeconomics.
Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD in economics