Adam Posen

Adam Posen has led the Peterson Institute for International Economics since 2013. He served as an external member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from 2009 to 2012, where he consistently advocated for more aggressive quantitative easing. Posen is one of the foremost Western experts on Japan's economic stagnation, having written "Restoring Japan's Economic Growth" (1998). He is vocal on exchange rate policy, trade imbalances, and the interaction between monetary and fiscal policy in advanced economies. Under his leadership, PIIE has expanded its research agenda to include technology policy, geopolitics of trade, and the economics of supply chain resilience. Posen has also been a prominent commentator on US-China economic relations and the implications of economic fragmentation for global growth, inflation, and financial stability, providing policymakers and institutional investors with analytical frameworks grounded in historical evidence and empirical research.