Professor Richard N. Cooper
Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics

Richard N. Cooper is Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University. He has written extensively on questions of international economic policy, including The Economics of Interdependence (1968), Economic Policy in an Interdependent World (1986), The International Monetary System (1987), Can Nations Agree? (with others, 1989), Economic Stabilization and Debt in Developing Countries (1992), Boom, Crisis, and Adjustment: Macroeconomic Management in Developing Countries (with others, 1993), Macroeconomic Policy and Adjustment in Korea, 1970-1990 (with others, 1994), and Environment and Resource Policies for the World Economy (1994), as well as over three hundred articles. In 1990-92 he was chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. From 1963-77 he was professor of economics and Provost (1972-74) of Yale University. He has served on several occasions in the U.S. government, as Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (1995-97), Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1977-1981), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Monetary Affairs (1965-66), and senior staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers (1961-63). He was educated at Oberlin College (B.A., 1956), the London School of Economics (M.Sc., 1958), and Harvard University (Ph.D., 1962).