Other Appointments and Past Positions

Economic Policy Appointments

• External Member, Monetary Policy Committee, Central Bank of Iceland, 2009 - 2012 (photo)
  
  
• Member, Panel of Economic and Monetary Experts, Committee for Economic and Monetary Affairs, European Parliament, 2003 - 2015
  
  
• Member, Council of Economic Advisors to the Opposition Front Bench, UK, 1999 - 2006
  
  
• Participant, HM Treasury’s Productivity and Employment Roundtable 2005 - 2008
  
  
• Member, Shadow Monetary Policy Committee, UK, 1997 - 2009
  
  
• Member, Conservative Party Commission on the Independence of the Bank of England, 1999 - 2000
  
  
• Financial Times Economists’ Forum, 2006 - present
  
  
• Founding Contributor, VOX, 2006 - present
  
  
• Consultant, Center for the Economic Analysis of Law, Washington, CE, 1996 - 2003

Other Academic Appointments

• Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, UK, 1995 - present
  
  
• Research Fellow, CESifo Research Network, Munich, Germany, 2000 - present
  
  
• International Research Fellow, Kiel Institute for World Economics, 2006 - present
  
  
• Fellow, European Economic Association, 2004 - present
  

• Member, Council of the European Economic Association, 2000 - 2005
  
  
• Member, Council of the Royal Economic Society, 2002 - 2007
  
  
• Member, ESRC Research Grants Board, 1 September 2000 - 1 September 2002
  
  
• ESRC Politics, Economics and Geography Research College, 1999 - 2000
  
  
• Associate Editor, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2006 - 2009
  
  
• Panel Member, Economic Policy, 2006 - 2007
  
  
• Advisory Board, Journal of Macroeconomics, 2015 - present
  
  
• Editorial Board, Journal of Macroeconomics, 1998 - 2005
  
  
• Editorial Council, Review of International Economics, 1997 - present
  
  
• Editorial Board, East-West Journal of Economic Issues, 1997 - present
  
  
• Associate Editor, Economic Journal, 1998 - 2004
  
  
• Editorial Board, International Tax and Public Finance, 1999 - 2004
  

Past Full-time Positions

• Reader, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK, 1995 - 1997
  
  
• Associate Professor of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, 1993 - 1995
  
  
• Associate Professor of Economics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA, 1991 - 1993
  
  
• Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA, 1986 - 1991
  
  
• Economist, Division of International Finance, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC, USA, 1982 - 1986
  
  
• Teaching Fellow, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 1980 - 1982
  

Visiting Positions

• Visiting Professor, School for International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, Autumn 2015
  
  
• Hong Kong Monetary Authority, May-June 2002
  
  
• Summer 1987 Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, USA, Summer 1999
  
  
• Center for Economic Studies, University of Munich, Germany, December 1997
  
  
• IGIER, Universita’ L. Bocconi, Milan, Italy, November 1997
  
  
• University of Frankfurt, Germany, June 1997
  
  
• Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm, Sweden, December 1996
  
  
• European Policy Research Unit, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, February 1996
  
  
• Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, February 1995
  
  
• University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, August 1993
  
  
• International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC, USA, December 1992- March 1993
  
  
• University of California at Santa Cruz, USA, Winter 1992
  
  
• Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics, USA, Summer 1990
  
  
• Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 1988 - 1991
  
  
• Fudan University, Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China, Spring 1988
  
  
• Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden, May 1986

Education

• PhD Economics, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1982
  
  
• MS Economics, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1979
  
  
• AB Mathematical Economics, Brown University, 1977
  

Grants

• ESCR ROPA Award R0222032: "The Ins and Outs of Staggered Economic and Monetary Union in Europe," with Willem Buiter
  

Teaching Awards

• Outstanding Educator Award for Fall of 1989, presented by the honor student society, Mortar Board, University of Kansas
  

Administrative Positions

• Head of the School of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, Birkbeck, University of London, 2000-2007
  
  
• PhD Coordinator, Department of Economics, Birkbeck, University of London , 1998 - 2000
  
  
• Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1994-1995