Adam S. Posen

Adam S. Posen is president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Under his leadership, since January 2013, the Institute has grown to forty-five world-renowned fellows and won global recognition as the leading think tank in its field. A macroeconomist, from 2009 to 2012, Posen served as an external voting member of the Bank of England's rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee, and he co-authored Inflation Targeting with Bernanke, Laubach, and Mishkin while at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1994–97). His current research addresses globalization’s future amidst China-U.S. conflict, including his widely cited recent articles, “The Post-American World Economy,” “The Price of Nostalgia,” “The End of China’s Economic Miracle,” “Trade Wars are Easy to Lose,” and “The New Economic Geography,” all in Foreign Affairs