Nouriel Roubini

Professor, Stern School of Business, New York University

Nouriel Roubini

Professor, Stern School of Business, New York University
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Biography

Dr. Nouriel Roubini is Professor of Economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He is Chairman of Roubini Macro Associates, a global macroeconomic consultancy firm in New York. His is also a Co-Founder of Rosa & Roubini Associates based in London.

Dr. Roubini has extensive policy experience as well as broad academic credentials. He was Co-Founder and Chairman of Roubini Global Economics from 2005-16 – a firm whose website was named one of the best economics web resources by BusinessWeek, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal and the Economist.

At a 2006 address to the International Monetary Fund, Dr. Roubini warned of the impending recession due to the credit and housing market bubble. His predictions of these upside-down balance sheets became a reality in 2008, with the bubble bursting and reverberating around the world into a global financial crisis – a recession we’re only recently rebounding from after more than a decade.

Dr. Roubini has published numerous theoretical, empirical and policy papers on international macroeconomic issues and has also become a noted skeptic of both crypto currencies and Blockchain technology and rejects the notion that crypto currencies have an intrinsic value.