BIO
Emmanuel Farhi is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Center for Economic Policy and Research. His research focuses on macroeconomics. His papers have been published in leading academic journals. He has also published two books, Reforming the International Monetary System, Secular Stagnation: Facts, Causes, and Cures, as well as the 7+7 report Reconciling Risk Sharing and Market Discipline: a Constructive Approach to the Euro Area Reform.
In 2010, he received a Sloan Research Fellowship. He was awarded the 2009 Bernacèr Prize for the best European economist under the age of 40 by the Observatory of the European Central Bank, the 2011 Mallinvaud prize by the French Economic Association, the 2013 Best Young Economist prize by Le Monde and the Cercle des Économistes, and the 2013 Banque de France and Toulouse School of Economics prize in Macroeconomics and Finance. In 2014, he was listed as one of the best 25 young economists under 45 in the world by the IMF.
He grew up in France where he attended the École Normale Supérieure and the Corps des Mines. He was awarded his Ph.D. by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2006.