Co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prizein Economics Sciences,formerChief Economist and Senior Vice President of World Bank

He is aneconomistand policy entrepreneur and University Professor in Economics at NYU. He received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his work “integrating technological innovations into long-runmacroeconomic analysis”. He previously served as theChief Economist at the World Bank where he worked to advance the multilateralinstitution’s critical research function. He is theFounding Director of NYU’s Marron Institute of UrbanManagement, as well as the founder of the Charter Cities initiative.