Professor Olivier Blanchard will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Department of Economics of the Athens University of Economics and Business on May 5th, 2022

Conferment of Doctorate ‘Honoris Causa’ on Professor Olivier Blanchard

May 5th, 2022, 18:00, "Leonidas Zervas" Amphitheatre, National Hellenic Research Foundation

Professor Olivier Blanchard will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Department of Economics of the Athens University of Economics and Business on May 5th, 2022.

The ceremony will take place at the "Leonidas Zervas" Aphitheatre, National Hellenic Research Foundation at 18.00

Olivier Blanchard is the C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). 

A citizen of France, Blanchard has spent most of his professional life in the United States.  After obtaining his PhD in economics from MIT in 1977, he taught at Harvard University and returned to MIT in 1982. He was chair of the economics department from 1998 to 2003. In 2008, he took a leave of absence to serve as economic counsellor and director of the research department at the International Monetary Fund where he stayed until 2015. He then joined the Peterson Institute.

Blanchard has worked on a wide set of macroeconomic issues, including the role of monetary and fiscal policy, speculative bubbles, the labor market and determinants of unemployment, economic transition in former communist countries, and the nature of the Global Financial Crisis. In the process, he has worked with numerous countries and international organizations.

Blanchard is the author of many books and articles, including two textbooks on macroeconomics, one at the graduate level with Stanley Fischer and the other at the undergraduate level. He is a past editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the NBER Macroeconomics Annual and founding editor of American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. He is a fellow and former Council member of the Econometric Society, a past president of the American Economic Association, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Link to the Olivier Blanchard Page at the Peterson Institute

Welcome address by the Rector of the University, Professor Dimitrios Bourantonis

Welcome address by the Head of the Department of Economics, Professor George Alogoskoufis

Presentation of Professor Olivier Blanchard's scientific work by the Professor of the Department of Economics, Apostolos Philippopoulos

Conferment of Doctorate ‘Honoris Causa’ on Professor Olivier Blanchard

The Head of the Department, Professor George Alogoskoufis reads the conferment resolution as adopted by the University’s Department of Economics

The Rector Professor Dimitrios Bourantonis reads the Pronouncement

Keynote speech delivered by Professor Olivier Blanchard entitled “Reform of EU Fiscal Rules”