Key facts
- Born
- ( 1958-03-29 ) March 29, 1958 (age 68) , Istanbul , Turkey
- Alma mater
- Bocconi University (B.A.), Harvard University (Ph.D.)
- Discipline
- Economics
- Institutions
- New York University
- Website
- https://nourielroubini.com/ Information at IDEAS / RePEc
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Istanbul
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Bocconi University
- Employer
- Yale University
- Languages spoken
- Turkish
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Doctoral advisor
- Jeffrey Sachs
- Field of work
- economics
- Official website
- www.roubini.com
- Image
- Nouriel Roubini - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012 cropped.jpg
- Work location
- Cambridge
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- Nouriel Roubini
- date of birth
- 1958-03-29
- social media followers
- 572328
- affiliation string
- New York University
- affiliation
- New York University
- has works in the collection
- Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
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Encyclopedic overview
Nouriel Roubini (born March 29, 1958) is a Turkish-born American economic consultant, economist, speaker, and writer. He is a professor emeritus since 2021 at the Stern School of Business of New York University. Roubini earned a BA in political economics at Bocconi University in Italy and a doctorate in international economics at Harvard University. He was an academic at Yale University in the 1990s, and a researcher/advisor researching emerging markets.
During the Bill Clinton administration in 1998-99, Roubini was for one year a senior economist in the Council of Economic Advisers. He was one of the people who predicted the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis and he predicted the ensuing Great Recession, and warned that the COVID-19 recession could be even worse. Roubini is also a frequent critic of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nouriel Roubini” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.