Eswar Prasad

Eswar Prasad

 

• Eswar Prasad holds the New Century Chair in International Economics. He is the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy at Cornell University and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
• He began his studies in economics at the University of Madras (B.A., 1985), and continued at Brown University (M.A., 1986) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1992).
• He is a former Chief of the Financial Studies Division in the International Monetary Fund’s Research Department and was also the head of the IMF’s China division. He was the founding editor of the quarterly IMF Research Bulletin.
• His research covers many areas including labor economics, business cycles, and open economy macroeconomics. 
• In his latest book, The Dollar Trap (2014), Prasad examines the U.S. dollar's faltering dominance in the world economy following the global financial crisis.