Harald Hau is a Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Geneva, holds a Swiss Finance Institute Senior Chair; and is managing director of the Geneva Finance Research Institute (GFRI). His research interests are in international finance, financial markets and financial stability.
After his PhD at Princeton University in 1996 under Kenneth Rogoff, he first taught at the French business school ESSEC and from 2001 to 2011 at INSEAD in Fountainebleau and Singapore. Since 2011 he holds a senior chair at the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI). He was a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, a Visiting Scholar at the International Monetary Fund, and the Wim Duisenberg Fellow at the European Central Bank. He is a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the Center for Economic Studies (CES).

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