Bio

Markus K. Brunnermeier is the Edwards S. Sanford Professor in the economics department at Princeton University and director of Princeton's Bendheim Center for Finance. His research focuses on international financial markets and the macroeconomy with special emphasis on bubbles, liquidity, financial and monetary price stability, and digital money. In 2020, at the outbreak of Covid, he established a webinar series called Markus' Academy which serves as a platform to discuss lessons and ideas on managing and anticipating future risks and shocks and better ways to respond. Brunnermeier is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Centre for Economic Policy Research, CESifo, the Luohan Academy, ABFER, and a member of the Bellagio Group on the International Economy. He is a Sloan Research Fellow, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Guggenheim Fellow, and the recipient of the Bernácer Prize granted for outstanding contributions in the fields of macroeconomics and finance. Markus is a member of several advisory groups, including the US Congressional Budget Office, the Bank for International Settlements, and the Bundesbank as well as previously to the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve of New York, the European Systemic Risk Board. Brunnermeier was awarded his Ph.D. by the London School of Economics (LSE). He has been awarded several best paper prizes and served on the editorial boards of a number of leading economics and finance journals. He has worked to establish the concepts of liquidity spirals, CoVaR as a measure of systemic risk, the Volatility Paradox, Paradox of Prudence, European Safe Bonds (ESBies), financial dominance, the redistributive monetary policy, the Reversal Rate, and Digital Currency Areas. His recent book “The Resilient Society” won the 2021 Best Economics Book in German Prize. Markus' LinkedIn account is managed by his communications assistant. For more information visit: Twitter: @markuseconomist Princeton CV: https://scholar.princeton.edu/markus/biocv Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance: https://bcf.princeton.edu/people/#filters-set Yale Economic Review: https://www.princeton.edu/~markus/CV/5_hot_economists.htm Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Brunnermeier