Barry Eichengreen is a distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. In 1997-98 he was Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund. He is a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association (class of 2022), a corresponding fellow of the British Academy (class of 2022). For 15 years from 2004 he served as convener of the Bellagio Group of academics and officials. He was named one of Foreign Policy Magazine's 100 Leading Global Thinkers in 2011. He has been awarded the Economic History Association's Jonathan R.T. Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching and the University of California at Berkeley Social Science Division's Distinguished Teaching Award. He was the 2022 recipient of the Nessim Habif Prize for Contributions to Science and Industry.