Barry Eichengreen

Barry Eichengreen is George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at UC Berkeley and one of the world's foremost authorities on international monetary economics. His extensive body of work covers the history of the gold standard and its relationship to the Great Depression, the international role of the U.S. dollar as the dominant reserve currency, currency crises and contagion, European monetary integration, and the architecture of the international financial system. His book "Globalizing Capital" is a standard text on the history of the international monetary system, and "Exorbitant Privilege" examines the dollar's reserve currency status and challenges to it. Eichengreen has served as senior policy advisor to the IMF and consults with central banks globally. His academic rigor combined with policy relevance has made his analyses central to debates about dollar dominance, reserve currency diversification, the future of the euro, and the implications of central bank digital currencies for the international monetary order.