Nouriel Roubini
World Renowned Economist
Nouriel Roubini
World Renowned Economist
Biography
Dr. Nouriel Roubini is a world-renowned economist, advisor, educator, and portfolio manager, recognized globally for his expertise in international finance and economic policy. With decades of leadership across government, academia, and industry, he offers unparalleled insight into macroeconomic and geopolitical trends shaping the global economy.
Named by Time magazine as one of the “Top 100 Scientists and Thinkers,” Dr. Roubini earned international prominence for his accurate prediction of the 2008 global financial crisis—an achievement that cemented his reputation as one of the most influential and forward-looking voices in economics.
He is Chairman and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates, LLC, a New York–based consultancy providing strategic macroeconomic analysis. He also serves as Senior Economic Strategist to Hudson Bay Capital, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Brevan Howard Macro Venture Fund, Chief Economist and Portfolio Manager at Atlas Capital Team, and is Professor Emeritus of Economics at NYU’s Stern School of Business.
Dr. Roubini’s career includes senior policy and research roles at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve, and the World Bank. He also co-founded Roubini Global Economics (RGE), a leading consultancy for financial analysis.
A prolific author and commentator, he has written extensively on global finance, systemic risk, and economic policy. His latest book, Megathreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future and How to Survive Them (2022), explores the vulnerabilities confronting the global economy. His earlier works include Political Cycles: Theory and Evidence (1997), Bailouts or Bail-ins? (2004), and the international bestseller Crisis Economics (2010). He contributes monthly columns to Project Syndicate, co-runs the economic research platform The BoomBust, and is a frequent presence on leading business networks.
Throughout, he has often been more optimistic than consensus, and his challenges to pessimistic conventional wisdom have been proven right.
Roubini is not “Dr. Doom” or a perma-bear; he is Dr. Realist.
In recent times he has become optimistic about how technological innovation can lead to a secular boom.
Dr. Roubini’s views on global economic issues are widely sought and cited by the media with extended profiles in many leading current-affairs publications including the New York Times Magazine & The Financial Times.
Dr. Roubini holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and a B.A. in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan.
Speaker Videos
Emerging Markets
Ten Trends in a Global Economy
Evidence of a New Economic Revolution
The Future of Labor
When to Expect the Next US Economic Crash: Bloomberg
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Upsides & Downsides in the Global Economy & Financial Markets
The outlook for the global economy and financial markets is mixed. The positives and upside include a pick-up in global growth after years of a new mediocre, profitable corporate firms, better business and consumer confidence, more optimistic investors with markets in risk-on mode, the rise of emerging markets, new technologies and innovation. The downside are however several: uncertainties about Trumponomics, the risks of European and Eurozone dis-integration, the potential for a hard landing of highly indebted China, the sluggish global growth and productivity in a world of high private and public debts, the frothiness in financial markets and the risks of assets and credit bubbles fed by easy monetary policies, the backlash against globalization and geopolitical risks. Markets are now bullish is not bubbly but the economies are still sluggish. Roubini argues that a new policy framework is needed to minimize the downsides and maximize the upsides.
US Economic & Financial Outlook
Uncertainties remain about the economic policies of Trump and their impact on the US economy and markets. Since the presidential election investors have become bullish pushing financial markets to new highs while business and consumer confidence have risen in spite of still sluggish growth. Investors hope that fiscal stimulus, infrastructure spending, tax reform and deregulation will boost growth and markets. A honeymoon can continue for quite a while if positive policies are properly implemented. But markets may be overestimating Trump’s ability to deliver positive policy changes and the impact of such changes on a potential growth that is kept low by longer term and structural forces. Markets may also be underestimating some of the potential negatives of Trumponomics: protectionism and the risk of trade wars; restrictions to migration that may slow growth in an ageing society; inefficient micro-management of the decisions of the corporate sector on where to produce, invest and hire; a sub-optimal policy mix with loose fiscal policy in an economy close to full employment that will force the Fed to tighten sooner and more; that could lead to higher interest rates and a stronger dollar that will hurt jobs and growth. Roubini argues that the jury is still out on whether Trumponomics will be more populist and protectionist or more mainstream and pragmatic, even if the latter scenario looks more likely.
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