Peter Bain Kenen was an American economist, who was the Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance at Princeton University, and senior fellow in international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.
12 Facts About Peter Kenen
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Peter Kenen taught at Columbia from 1957 to 1971, where he served as chairman of the Department of Economics and was named as provost of the university.
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Peter Kenen studied at the London School of Economics in 1957.
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Peter Kenen was director of the International Finance Section at Princeton from 1971 to 1999.
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Peter Kenen is best known for his work on the theory of optimum currency areas, in which he argued that groups of countries with diversified domestic production are more likely to constitute optimum currency areas than groups whose members are highly specialized.
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Peter Kenen was one of the first to advocate floating exchange rates for small countries.
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Peter Kenen edited several books, including Managing the World Economy and Understanding Interdependence, and was co editor of the two volume Handbook of International Economics.
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Peter Kenen published numerous articles in scholarly journals, many of which have been reprinted in two volumes: Essays in International Economics and Exchange Rates and the Monetary System.
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Peter Kenen was a consultant to the Council of Economic Advisers, the Office of Management and Budget, the Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund, and the United States Department of the Treasury.
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Peter Kenen was a member of President Kennedy's Task Force on Foreign Economic Policy, the Review Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics, the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Group of Thirty.
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Peter Kenen held research fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the German Marshall Fund, and he was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow, and Ford Research Professor at the University of California.
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Peter Kenen died on December 17,2012, after a battle with emphysema.