16 Facts About Willem Buiter

Willem Hendrik Buiter CBE was born on 26 September 1949 and is an American-British economist.

Willem Buiter spent most of his career as an academic, teaching at various universities.

Willem Buiter is a national of the United States and the United Kingdom.

Willem Buiter went to the European School in Brussels, Belgium from 1962 to 1967, where he obtained his European Baccalaureate.

Willem Buiter was awarded his PhD in economics from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, in 1975.

From 1975 to 1976 and 1977 to 1979, Willem Buiter was an assistant professor of economics and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.

On 1 April 1982, Willem Buiter was appointed Cassel Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics with special reference to money and banking.

Willem Buiter left LSE in 1985 to teach economics at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut from 1985 until 1994.

In 1989 Willem Buiter became a correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Willem Buiter left the United States in 1994 when he was appointed as Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and professor of International Macroeconomics at the University of Cambridge, positions he held until May 2000.

Willem Buiter was an external member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from June 1997 to May 2000.

From September 2005 until May 2009, Willem Buiter was professor of European Political Economy at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

From 2005 to 2010, Willem Buiter was an International Advisor of Goldman Sachs International.

Willem Buiter is a contributor to the Financial Times, where until December 2009 he wrote a blog entitled " Maverecon".

In January 2010, Willem Buiter joined Citigroup as Chief Economist, replacing Lewis Alexander who vacated the position to work with the United States Treasury eight months prior.

Willem Buiter, since 5 June 1998 is married to Anne Sibert, professor of economics at Birkbeck, University of London, who was an External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Iceland from 2009 until 2012.