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Adam Simon Posen CBE (born 1966) is an American economist and President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE). He became PIIE president on January 1, 2013, having first joined the Institute in July 1997.[1]

Life and career

Posen was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is Jewish.[2][3] He received a PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellow, after graduating from Harvard College in 1988.[citation ^needed]

His research focuses on macroeconomic policy in the industrial democracies, G-20 economic relations, the resolution of financial crises, and central banking issues. He has been a consultant to the IMF and to several US government agencies, as well as to the British and Japanese Cabinet Offices, and a visiting scholar at central banks in Europe and East Asia, and in the US Federal Reserve System. From 1994 to 1997, he was an economist in international research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and from 1993 to 1994 was Okun Memorial Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. He was a Bosch Foundation Fellow in Germany in 1992 to 1993, where he worked for the Bundesbank in Frankfurt and for Deutsche Bank in Berlin. He has also been a Public Policy Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin (2001).[4] In 2006 he was a Houblon-Norman Senior Fellow at the Bank of England, on sabbatical from Peterson Institute for International Economics.

From September 1, 2009, to August 31, 2012, he was a voting External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England, by appointment of the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer.[5]

Publications

His most cited publications include the books Restoring Japan's Economic Growth (1998)[6] and Inflation Targeting: Lessons from the International Experience[7] (1999, co-authored with Ben Bernanke, Thomas Laubach, and Frederic Mishkin), a series of articles on the political economy of central bank independence, and more recent works on the global roles of the dollar and the euro.[8]

References

  1. "Adam S. Posen to become new President". Peterson Institute. Archived from the original on May 21, 2013. Retrieved May 19, 2012.
  2. Posen, Adam [@AdamPosen] (September 6, 2018). "Powerful, personal, on point, and people should read" (Tweet). Retrieved October 9, 2022 – via Twitter.
  3. "Watch out for this year's playmakers". The Jewish Chronicle. January 7, 2010. Retrieved October 9, 2022.
  4. "After the conventions: the race to the White House". The United States Diplomatic Mission to Germany. September 9, 2008. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
  5. "Adam S. Posen". World Bank Live. December 23, 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2025.
  6. Adam Simon Posen (1998). Restoring Japan's Economic Growth. Peterson Institute. ISBN 978-0-88132-262-0.
  7. Ben S. Bernanke; Thomas Laubach; Frederic S. Mishkin; Adam S. Posen (2001). Inflation Targeting: Lessons from the International Experience. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-08689-7.
  8. "Adam S. Posen". The Peterson Institute for International Economics. Archived from the original on April 2, 2010. Retrieved April 3, 2010.

External links

This article incorporates public domain material from the US mission to Germany. "After the conventions: the race to the White House". U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets. United States Department of State. Retrieved April 3, 2010.

And the Peterson Institute’s Adam Posen left out necessary context when he warned: “This is the first truly credible inflation threat in decades.” But senior economists have pushed back against this kind of fearmongering over inflation.

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On April 1, Sinclair national correspondent James Rosen included commentary from Adam Posen of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in his report on Biden’s infrastructure plan, which also aired on dozens of Sinclair stations before re-airing on The National Desk. But Rosen failed to mention the pro-austerity nature of the organization and its namesake.

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Adam S. Posen is an American economist and the president of the ⁠Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank he has led since January 2013. He previously served as an external voting member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee.

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Adam Posen has seen and done it all. He was an important voice in macroeconomic debates in the 1990s, when he was one of the small group of Western economists who realized that Japan’s troubles were a warning sign for all of us. He’s been a policymaker, serving on the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, the equivalent of the Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee. Currently he’s president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, one of the best if not the best economic policy think tanks in the world.

He’s also, I know from decades of acquaintance, open and articulate. So I thought it would be good to talk to him about the current craziness regarding the Fed, as well as the general economic situation. Transcript follows.

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TRANSCRIPT:

Paul Krugman in Conversation with Adam Posen

(recorded 7/17/25)

:{Paul Krugman: Hi everyone, Paul Krugman here again. This has been a crazy week in many respects, but luckily it's not my department and not my guest’s department to talk about Epstein and all of that. But a crazy week on monetary affairs. And I wanted to talk to somebody who both understands it and has real world policymaking, institutional experience. So I've got Adam Posen who runs the Peterson Institute for International Economics, one of the small but extremely important think tanks in Washington.

He’s also a world class macroeconomist and one of the people who, along with me, got worried about Japan before it was fashionable, and he’s served on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, which is an equivalent of the Federal Open Market Committee in the United States. And so I thought Adam would be a really good person to talk about this very peculiar juncture we're in. So hi, Adam.}:

Adam Posen: Hi Paul, thanks so much for having me. I've been loving what you've done with the Substack, the interviews, the Martin Wolf conversations. So I'm really glad to be here.

Krugman: So before we get to firing Jerome Powell and all of that, what would be your assessment of where the U.S. economy is? And then we want to talk about what probably the Fed should be doing and then get on to the politics.

:{Posen: Well, in line with things you've been discussing, the uncertainty is big for forecasters. The uncertainty from Trumponomics, Trump trade, Trump firing, Trump corruption, affecting investment. I think growth is going to be highly dependent on two questions, I mean, since the labor market clearly is pretty resilient right now and balance sheets remain pretty strong, not like they were in 2023, but still by historical standards, quite strong for corporates and households.

I think the main determinants are the balance of recession and inflation we get from the anti-migration work, or work is not the right word, the anti-migration barbarities and the anti-tariff, anti-global things. And I think they're both going to turn into stagflation with significant contraction and inflation from each. But there's room, especially on the tariff side, that it could be more contraction if real income is less inflation. And we'll have to see.}:

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