Willem Buiter - Academia

Academia

In 1975-6 and 1977-9, Buiter was an Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University in the United States. In 1976-7 he was Lecturer in Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 1980 until 1982, he was Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol.

From 1977 until 2011, he was a Research Associate in the Financial Markets and Monetary Economics Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

On 1 April 1982, Willem Buiter was appointed Cassel Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics with special reference to money and banking. He left LSE in 1985 to teach Economics at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, from 1985 until 1994.

Buiter left the United States in 1994 when he was appointed as Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and professor of International Macroeconomics at the University of Cambridge, positions he held until May 2000. In June 2000, he became Chief Economist and Special Advisor to the President at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, a position he held until August 2005. From September 2005 till May 2009, Buiter was professor of European Political Economy at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. From June 2009 till August 2011, he was professor of Political Economy at the Centre for Economic Performance, of the LSE.