Carmen Reinhart
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Carmen M. Reinhart (née Castellanos, born October 7, 1955) is a Cuban-American economist and the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System at Harvard Kennedy School.[2] Previously, she was the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics[3] and Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for International Economics at the University of Maryland.[4] She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, Founding Contributor of VoxEU,[5] and a member of Council on Foreign Relations. She is also a member of American Economic Association, Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association,[6] and the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy. She became the subject of general news coverage when mathematical errors were found in a research paper she co-authored.[7]
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Carmen Reinhart | |
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Chief Economist of the World Bank | |
In office 15 June 2020 – 30 June 2022 | |
President | David Malpass |
Preceded by | Aart Kraay (Acting) |
Succeeded by | Aart Kraay (Acting) |
Personal details | |
Born | (1955-10-07) 7 October 1955 (age 68) Havana, Cuba |
Education | Miami Dade College Florida International University (BA) Columbia University (MA, PhD) |
Academic career | |
Institution | Harvard Kennedy School |
Field | International economics |
Doctoral advisor | Robert Mundell[1] |
Awards | King Juan Carlos Prize in Economics (2018) |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
On May 20, 2020, Reinhart was appointed World Bank Chief Economist, starting on June 15, 2020.[8]
According to Research Papers in Economics (RePec), Reinhart is ranked among the top economists worldwide, based on publications and scholarly citations. She has testified before Congress and is listed among Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers, Thomson Reuters' The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds, and Bloomberg Markets Most Influential 50 in Finance. In December 2018, Reinhart received the King Juan Carlos Prize in Economics and Nabe's Adam Smith Award.