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Robert Mundell
Resident Professor of International Economics
Holder of the AGIP Chair in International Economics
Professor of Economics, Columbia University, since 1974
1999 Nobel Prize in Economics

Background and Education
B.A., University of British Columbia (1953); M.A. University of Washington (1954); Ph.D. in Economics, M.I.T., (1956).

Post-Doctoral Fellow in Political Economy (1956-57); professor, SAIS Bologna Center (1959-61); senior economist, International Monetary Fund (1961-63); OAS/IDB Fiscal Mission to Peru (1964); professor of economics and editor of the Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago (1965-71); first Rockefeller visiting research professor of international economics, Brookings Institution (1964-65); member, Bellagio-Princeton Study Group on International Monetary Reform (1964-78). Ford Foundation research professor of economics, University of Chicago (spring, 1965-66); professor of international economics, Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva, 1965-75); Frank Graham Lecturer, Princeton (1965).

Chairman, department of economics, University of Waterloo, Ontario (1972-74); Consultant, European Monetary Committee, Economic Commission (June 1970); UN Economic Commission on Exchange Rates in Africa, Addis Ababa (1970); Guggenheim fellow (1971); Marshall Lecturer, Cambridge (1974); president, North American Economic and Financial Association (1974-78); chairman, Santa Colomba Study Group on the International Monetary System (1971-78); awarded Jacques Rueff Prize and Medal (1983); distinguished lecturer, Ching-Hua Institute, Taipei (1985).

Awarded Docteur Honoris Causa, University of Paris (1992); honorary professor, People's (Renmin) University of China (1995); Annenburg Distinguished Scholar in Residence, University of Southern California (1980); Repap visiting professor of economics, McGill University (1989-90); Richard Fox visiting professor of economics, University of Pennsylvania (1990-91); elected distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association (1996); AGIP Chair in International Economics, Johns Hopkins SAIS Bologna Center (1997-98).

Publications
The International Monetary System: Conflict and Reform (1965); Man and Economics (1968); International Economics (1968); Monetary Theory: Interest, Inflation and Growth in the World Economy (1971); recent edited books include Global Disequilibrium in the World Economy (1992); Building the New Europe (1993), Debts, Deficits and Economic Performance (1993); Inflation and Growth in China (1996).