Hélène Rey

Hélène Rey is a professor of Economics at the London Business School. Until 2007, she was at Princeton University, where she taught Economics and International Affairs in the Economics Department and the Woodrow Wilson School. From 2010 to 2012, she was a member of the Conseil d'analyse économique, which assisted the French Prime Minister François Fillon on economic matters and since 2012, she has been a member of the Commission Économique de la Nation, where she advises France's Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire today. She is also a regular contributor to the French newspaper Les Échos and is an associate researcher at the Center for Economic Policy Research. Her work focuses on the determinants and consequences of external trade and financial imbalances, the theory and empirics of financial crises, and the organization of the international monetary system. In 2006, she received the Bernácer Prize of the best european economist under 40 working in the domain of macroeconomics and finance. She holds a Bachelor's degree from ENSAE Paris and a Master of Science degree in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University (1994), along with PhDs from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the London School of Economics (1998).