2009 Keynote Speaker

NOURIEL ROUBINI

Click here for the video of Dr. Roubini's speech at the CBOE Risk Management Conference on March 9, 2009:

Professor Nouriel Roubini is an internationally known expert in the field of international macroeconomics. He is a Professor of Economics at New York University's Stern School of Business and is also the co-founder and Chairman of RGE Monitor, an innovative economic and geo-strategic information service named one of the best economics websites by Business Week, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal and The Economist. 

Professor Roubini has extensive policy experience as well as impressive academic credentials. From 1998-2000, he served as the Senior Economist for International Affairs at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and then the Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department, helping to resolve the Asian and global financial crises amongst other issues. The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and numerous other prominent public and private institutions have also drawn upon his consulting expertise.

He has published over 70 theoretical and empirical and policy papers on international macroeconomic issues and co-authored the books "Political Cycles: Theory and Evidence" (M.I.T. Press, 1997) and "Bailouts or Bail-ins? Responding to Financial Crises in Emerging Markets" (Institute for International Economics, 2004). Professor Roubini's views on global economics issues are widely cited by the media, and his blog was named one of 20 "must-read" sources by the WSJ.

Professor Roubini received an undergraduate degree at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy and a Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University; prior to joining Stern, he was a faculty member of the Economics Department at Yale University.