Peter Blair Henry
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Dean of the NYU Stern School of Business |
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In office January 2010 – Present |
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| Preceded by | Thomas F. Cooley |
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July 30, 1969 Kingston, Jamaica |
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M.I.T (Ph.D. 1997) University of Oxford (B.A. 1993) UNC Chapel Hill (B.A. 1991) |
| Profession | Economist, Professor |
| Website | peterblairhenry.com |
Peter Blair Henry, an economist, is the ninth Dean of New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business, and William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business, and author of TURNAROUND: Third World Lessons for First World Growth (Basic Books, March 2013). Previously, he was the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of International Economics at Stanford University.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1969, Peter Blair Henry became a US citizen in 1986.
Henry was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University where he received a BA in mathematics in 1993 and a Full Blue in basketball. He also received a BA in economics with distinction and highest honors in 1991 from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a Morehead-Cain Scholar, a National Merit Scholar, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a Marshall Scholar-Elect, a reserve wide receiver on the varsity football team, and a finalist in the 1991 campus-wide slam-dunk competition.
Henry received his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1997. While in graduate school, he served as a consultant to the Governors of the Bank of Jamaica and the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB). His research at the ECCB contributed to the intellectual foundation for establishing the first securities exchange in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Area.
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