Nouriel Roubini is a professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business, CEO of Roubini Macro Associates LLC, an economic consultancy firm, and co-founder of Rosa and Roubini Associates. He has worked for the International Monetary Fund, the US Federal Reserve, World Bank and Bank of Israel. In the late 1990s he was thesenior economist for International Affairs in the White House's Council of Economic Advisers and then the senior advisor to Timothy Geithner, the undersecretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department. In 2006 he was able to predict and warn of the impending recession due to the housing market bubble, which became a reality in 2008, resulting in a global financial crisis. Roubini has numerous publications on international macroeconomic issues and coauthored a bookon saving bankrupt economies “Bailouts or Bail-ins? Responding to Financial Crises in Emerging Markets” (Institute for International Economics, 2004) as well as “Political Cycles: Theory and Evidence” (MIT Press, 1997) and“Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance” (Penguin Press, 2010).

Born to Iranian Jewish parents in Turkey, Roubini moved to Iran and Israel with his family and later settled in Italy. He studied economics at Bocconi University in Milan (B.A., 1982) and Harvard University (Ph.D., 1998), where he specialized in macroeconomics and international economics. Prior to joining Stern, he was on the faculty of Yale University’s department of economics from 1988-1995.

Today Roubini is widely followed by global investors and his RGE Monitor, a London-based economic and financial analysis firm, has become a central source for economic analysis of the global credit crisis.