About Simon Johnson
Simon H. Johnson (born January 16, 1963) is a British-American economist who has served as the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management since 2004. He also served as a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics from 2008 to 2019. Before moving to MIT, he taught at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business from 1991 to 1997. From March 2007 through the end of August 2008, he served as Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund. In 2024, Johnson, Daron Acemoglu, and James A. Robinson were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their comparative studies in prosperity between nations. == Education == Born in 1963 in Sheffield, Johnson was privately educated at Abbotsholme School in Rocester and then went onto read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at the University of Oxford where he was an undergraduate student at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and graduated in 1984. He then received an MA in economics (with distinction) from the University of Manchester in 1986. He went on to doctoral study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was advised by Rudiger Dornbusch and received a PhD in economics in 1989, writing a dissertation entitled Inflation, intermediation, and economic activity. == Career and research == From 1989 to 1991, Johnson was a junior scholar at Harvard University, where he was a member of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and a fellow of its Russian Research Center. From 1991 to 1997, he taught at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, where he was an assistant professor till 1995, and an associate professor till 1997; he also directed its Center for Manager Development in St Petersburg, Russia from 1993 to 1995.
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