Peter Kenen

Peter B. Kenen is Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance Emeritus at Princeton University and an Adjunct Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He earned his BA at Columbia and PhD at Harvard. He taught at Columbia from 1957 to 1971, where he served as Chairman of the Economics Department and, in1969-70, as Provost of the University. He was Director of the International Finance Section at Princeton from 1971 to 1999. He is the author or co-author of several books, including Asset Markets, Exchange Rates and Economic Integration, Economic and Monetary Union in Europe, and The International Financial Architecture. He has published numerous papers in scholarly journals and was co-editor of the two-volume Handbook of International Economics. He was a member of President Kennedy’s Task Force on Foreign Economic Policy, the Review Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics and the Economic Advisory Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and he has been a Consultant to the US Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the IMF, and the United Nations; and he has held research fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and the Bank of England.