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Simon Johnson Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Simon Johnson is the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He is also a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C., and a member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Economic Advisers. Professor Johnson is a co-founder of http://BaselineScenario.com, a widely cited website on the global economy. His weekly columns appear in the NYT.com's Economix and The Washington Post online, and he also regularly provides content for the Lehrer NewsHour's Online Business Desk, NPR's Planet Money podcast, and The New Republic. Professor Johnson is an expert on financial and economic crises. As an academic, in policy roles, and with the private sector, over the past 20 years he has worked on severely stressed economic and financial situations around the world. His research and policy advice focus on how to limit the impact of negative shocks and manage the risks faced by countries. From March 2007 through the end of August 2008, Professor Johnson was the International Monetary Fund's Economic Counselor (chief economist) and Director of its Research Department. In 2000-2001 Professor Johnson was a member of the US Securities and Exchange Commission's Advisory Committee on Market Information. His assessment of the need for continuing strong market regulation is published as part of the final report from that committee. He is co-founder and a current co-chair of the National Bureau of Economic Research's (NBER) project on Africa. He is also faculty director of MIT Sloan's new Moscow initiative, and works closely with Endeavor, an organization that promotes entrepreneurship in Latin America and around the world. He has been on the faculty at MIT Sloan since 1996.
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