Nouriel Roubini

Nouriel Roubini was born on March 29, 1958, in Istanbul, Turkey. At one year old, his family briefly resided in Tehran, Iran, before moving to Tel Aviv, Israel, when he was three. From 1963 to 1983, he lived in Italy, primarily in Milan. He completed a one-year undergraduate program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1976–1977), then earned a B.A. summa cum laude in economics from Bocconi University in Italy (1982). In 1988, he received a Ph.D. in international economics from Harvard University. His early academic career included teaching at Yale University and New York University, alongside stints at institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. He also served in the Clinton administration as a senior economist in the Council of Economic Advisers (1998–1999) and as a senior adviser and director at the U.S. Treasury Department (1999–2000).

Roubini gained global recognition for accurately predicting the 2008 global financial crisis. In 2006, he warned of a coming crash driven by housing debt and shadow banking, a prediction that materialized in 2008. He further predicted that the COVID-19 recession would be deeper than the 2008 crisis if not for swift policy action, which the World Bank later confirmed as the worst global contraction since World War II. In 2021, he forewarned of a stagflationary decade due to post-COVID-19 supply shocks and loose policy, coinciding with inflation in advanced economies reaching multi-decade highs. He also outlined ten mutually reinforcing dangers that could impact the global economy over the subsequent decade.

He currently serves as Chairman and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates, LLC, a New York-based consultancy providing strategic macroeconomic analysis. He is also Senior Economic Strategist to Hudson Bay Capital, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Brevan Howard Macro Venture Fund, and Chief Economist and Portfolio Manager at Atlas Capital Team. His work focuses on global economic trends, financial market dynamics, and technological innovations like fintech.