Paul De Grauwe | |
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Born |
Ukkel, Belgium |
18 July 1946
Nationality | Belgian |
Fields | International economics, Monetary economics, European economy |
Institutions | London School of Economics, KU Leuven |
Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
Thesis | The interaction of monetary policies in a group of European countries. (1973) |
Notable awards | Prize of the European Communities (1976), Amex Bank Review Award (1990), Ark Prize of Free Speech (2013) |
Paul De Grauwe (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈpʌul də ˈɣrʌuə]; born 18 July 1946) is a Belgian economist and John Paulson Professor in European Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science as head of the European Institute. He is also professor emeritus in international economics at KU Leuven and former member of the Belgian Federal Parliament.
De Grauwe studied economics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven from 1964 until 1969. Having received a scholarship from the Belgian Fulbright Commission, De Grauwe obtained his PhD degree at Johns Hopkins University in 1973. He started to work as an intern at the European Economic Community in 1969 and later went on to become a research assistant, and subsequently a professor at the Center for Economic Studies of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
In 1973 De Grauwe began to work as an economist at the International Monetary Fund and accepted positions at the Centre for European Policy Studies and the European Central Bank. He has also been professor at the College of Europe, the Free University of Berlin, and the Norwegian School of Management. Furthermore, he has been a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan, Tilburg University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Kiel, Bank of Japan, Université libre de Bruxelles, University of Saarbrücken, Ghent University, the Catholic University of Portugal, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, University of Amsterdam, Humboldt University of Berlin, and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. In addition, De Grauwe has been given doctoral honorary degrees at the University of St Gallen, the university of Valencia, the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration and the University of Genoa.