Peter Blair Henry, a Jamaican American

Jamaican American

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 economist

Economist

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, is Dean of New York University

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’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. Previously, he was the Konosuke Matsushita

Konosuke Matsushita

was a Japanese industrialist, the founder of Panasonic, a company based in the suburb of Kadoma , Osaka in Japan. For many Japanese, he is known as "the god of management"...

 Professor of International Economics at Stanford University

Stanford University

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Henry has served in many governmental advisory roles, having assumed the leadership of President Barack Obama

Barack Obama

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's Transition Team review of international lending agencies, and having served as an economic advisor to Caribbean and African governments. He is also a board member of the National Bureau of Economic Research

National Bureau of Economic Research

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, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution

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, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations

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Henry earned a Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

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 degree with distinction and highest honors in economics from the University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina

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 while playing wide receiver

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 for the North Carolina Tar Heels football

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 team. A Rhodes Scholar, he also received a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Oxford

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. In 1997, he completed a Ph.D.

Doctor of Philosophy

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 in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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External links

• Home Page, NYU Stern School of Business.
• Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Peter Blair Henry, Stanford University, March 2009.