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Willem Buiter
Buiter in 1984
Born (1949-09-26) 26 September 1949 (age 75)
The Hague, Netherlands
NationalityAmerican; British
Academic career
FieldEconomics, Finance, Political Economy
InstitutionCitigroup, London, United Kingdom
Bank of England
Yale
London School of Economics
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Willem Hendrik Buiter (born 26 September 1949) is a Dutch-born American-British economist. He is currently the Chief Economist at Citigroup.

Early life and education

Buiter was born in The Hague, Netherlands on 26 September 1949. He is a national of the United States and the United Kingdom. Willem's father, Harm Buiter (1922–2011), was a Dutch economist, international trades union official and politician of the Labour Party (PvdA), who had served as Mayor of Groningen.

Buiter went to the European School in Brussels, Belgium from 1962 to 1967, where he obtained his European Baccalaureate. After studying Political and Social Science for one year at the University of Amsterdam from 1967 to 1968, Buiter went to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to study Economics and received his B.A. with First-Class Honours in 1971. He was awarded his M.A. in Economics in 1972 and his M.Phil. in Economics in 1973, his fields of concentration being International Economics, and Economic Development.

Buiter was awarded his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, in 1975. His thesis, "Temporary Equilibrium and Long-Run Equilibrium," was subsequently published in 1979.

Career

From 1975 to 1976 and 1977 to 1979, Buiter was an Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. From 1976 to 1977, he was Lecturer in Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 1980 until 1982, he was Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol.

From 1977 until 2011, he was a Research Associate in the Financial Markets and Monetary Economics Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

On 1 April 1982, Buiter was appointed Cassel Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics with special reference to money and banking. He left LSE in 1985 to teach Economics at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut from 1985 until 1994. In 1989 Buiter became a correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Buiter left the United States in 1994 when he was appointed as Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and professor of International Macroeconomics at the University of Cambridge, positions he held until May 2000. He was an external member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from June 1997 to May 2000. In June 2000, he became Chief Economist and Special Advisor to the President at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, a position he held until August 2005. From September 2005 until May 2009, Buiter was professor of European Political Economy at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 2005 to 2010, Buiter was an International Advisor of Goldman Sachs International.

Buiter is a contributor to the Financial Times, where until December 2009 he wrote a blog entitled " Maverecon". In April 2008, he wrote a paper about the situation of Icelandic banks for Landsbanki, together with his wife Anne Sibert. In mid-July 2008, an updated version was presented to the government of Iceland. The Icelandic interlocutors considered the paper to be too market-sensitive and it was agreed to be kept confidential.

From June 2009 till August 2011, he was professor of Political Economy at the Centre for Economic Performance of the LSE. In January 2010, Buiter joined Citigroup as Chief Economist, replacing Lewis Alexander who vacated the position to work with the United States Treasury eight months prior. In an April 2009 blog post, Buiter had earlier described Citigroup as "a conglomeration of worst practice from across the financial spectrum."

Personal life

In 1973 Buiter was married to Jean Archer. The marriage was dissolved in 1997. They had two children, David Michael Alejandro, born on 22 February 1991 in Callao, Peru, and Elizabeth Lorca, born 6 August 1993 in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Buiter, since 5 June 1998 is married to Anne Sibert, professor of Economics at Birkbeck, University of London, who was also an External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Iceland from 2009 until 2012. Sibert, on account of her criticism on the banking system and European finances for the Centre for Economic Policy Research, has been called "a commentator who cannot easily be ignored."

In July 2013, Buiter accused his lover Heleen Mees of harassment. In March 2014, the court decided that the case against Mees was to be dismissed in one year provided that she complies with two conditions. Later that year, in June 2014, Mees responded by filing for damages in excess of $20,000,000 against Buiter. On July 17, 2015, the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allowed Mees to gather evidence for the defamation case in the Netherlands.

References

  1. ^ "Willem Hendrik Buiter". Willembuiter.com. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
  2. ^ "Professor Willem H Buiter - Professor Willem H Buiter - Academic Staff - Staff - European Institute - Home". .lse.ac.uk. 5 February 2010. Retrieved 18 April 2014. Cite error: The named reference "lse" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  3. http://www.nber.org/~wbuiter/personal.htm
  4. "Oud-burgemeester Groningen Harm Buiter overleden ("Former mayor of Groningen, Harm Buiter, deceased"" (in Dutch). Elsevier.nl. 23 February 2011.
  5. "Willem Buiter". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  6. "Willem Buiter". EconoMonitor. 26 April 2010. Retrieved 4 October 2013.
  7. "willem buiter's maverecon". Blogs.ft.com. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
  8. "All in the family | willem buiter's maverecon". Blogs.ft.com. 8 March 2009. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
  9. ^ Archived 2008-11-08 at the Wayback Machine
  10. "Willem Buiter Will Join Citigroup as Chief Economist". Bloomberg L.P. 30 November 2009. Retrieved 27 January 2011. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
  11. "The damaged ECB legitimacy | vox". Voxeu.org. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
  12. Smith, Yves (15 September 2011). "Anne Sibert: The damaged ECB legitimacy". naked capitalism. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
  13. "ExNYU prof charged in Citigroup stalk". NY Post. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  14. "Dutch prof's stalking case set for dismissal". Washington Times. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  15. "From love drama to a claim of 20 million" (in Dutch). NRC Next. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  16. "Dutch academic wins US Appeals Court ruling". Washington Times. Retrieved 20 July 2015.

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