This page lists past fellows of the Professorial Fellowship in Monetary and Financial Economics, which we offer in conjunction with Victoria University of Wellington. It includes details of their research and public lectures.
February 2020
Partha Dasgupta is Frank Ramsey Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and Professorial Research Fellow at the Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester.
Professor Dasgupta's research interests have covered welfare and development economics, the economics of technological change, population, environmental and resource economics, the theory of games, the economics of undernutrition, and the economics of social capital.
December 2018
Martin Hellwig is Director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn, Germany.
He has published extensively in areas as diverse as the economics of information and incentives, public goods and taxation, competition policy and sector-specific regulation and financial economics. His publications from the 1990s on systemic aspects of risk in banking and finance already exposed some of the mechanisms that were so detrimental in the 2007–2009 crisis.
With Anat Admati from Stanford University, he co-authored 'The bankers' new clothes: what's wrong with banking and what to do about it', Princeton University Press 2013.
November 2017
Dirk Schoenmaker is Professor of Banking and Finance at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
November 2016
Anat Admati is the George G C Parker Professor of Finance and Economics at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. She has written extensively on information dissemination in financial markets, trading mechanisms, portfolio management, financial contracting and, most recently, on corporate governance and banking.
November 2015
Stephen Haber is the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the A A and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University.
November 2014
Ross Levine is the Willis H Booth Chair in Banking and Finance at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
February 2014
Lord Mervyn King is a distinguished visiting professor at New York University Stern School of Business and New York University School of Law. He served as Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee and Financial Policy Committee from 2003 to June 2013.
December 2013
Barry Eichengreen is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987.
June 2013
Maurice Obstfeld is the Class of 1958 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His interests are in international finance and macroeconomics, areas in which he has published more than a hundred research articles.
June 2012
Laurence Kotlikoff is Professor of Economics at Boston University. He has been on the faculty at UCLA, Yale, Harvard and Boston University.
March 2011
Gordon Thiessen is the former Governor of the Bank of Canada, completing a term of seven years.
January 2010
Charles Goodhart is a member of the Financial Markets Group at the London School of Economics.
May–July 2009
Michael Bordo is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Monetary and Financial History at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
September–November 2008
Eric Leeper is Professor of Economics at the Indiana University. He also holds positions as a director of the Centre for Applied Economics and Policy Research at the Indiana University.
February–March and August–September 2006
Richard Herring is the Jacob Safra Professor of International Banking, at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
January–March 2005
Edward Kane is the James F Cleary Chair in Finance at Boston College.
March–May 2004
George Kaufman is the John F Smith, Jr Professor of Economics and Finance, Loyola University Chicago.
January–June 2003
Kenneth West is Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin.
January–April 2003
Matthew Shapiro is Professor Economic Department and Senior Research Scientist, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan.
February 2002
Takatoshi Ito is from Hitosubashi University.
February–March 2002
Peter Kenen is the Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance, Princeton University.
1–30 June 2000
Michael Woodford is the Harold H Helm 20 Professor of Economics and Banking, Princeton University.
11 November–18 December 1998
Andrew Rose is from the Haas School of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley.
16 October–27 November 1997
Lars Svensson is from the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University.
30 May–7 December 1996
Laurence Ball is from Johns Hopkins University.
15 January–16 March and 16 April–6 June 1996
Ralph Bryant is from the Brookings Institution.
22 March–23 June 1995
Bennett McCallum is from Carnegie-Mellon University.