Jeffrey Frankel is James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
He served at the US President’s Council of Economic Advisers in 1983-84 and again in 1996-99. As CEA Member appointed by President Clinton, Frankel's responsibilities included international economics, macroeconomics, and the environment.
Before moving to Harvard, he was Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, having joined the faculty there in 1979. He has had temporary appointments or advisory positions at the Federal Reserve, International Monetary Fund, Peterson Institute for International Economics, US Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Mauritius, among other institutions.
His research interests include currencies, crises, commodities, international finance, international trade, monetary and fiscal policy, and global environmental issues.
RePEc ranks him among the 50 most-cited economists. He writes a monthly column at Project Syndicate and The Guardian and a blog, and co-directs annually the NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics and Harvard’s conference on Politics and Economics of International Finance.
He was born in San Francisco, graduated from Swarthmore College, and received his Economics PhD from MIT.