Eswar S. Prasad

Eswar Prasad is the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he holds the New Century Chair in International Trade and Economics, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a former head of the IMF’s China Division. Prasad is the author of Gaining Currency: The Rise of the Renminbi and The Dollar Trap: How the Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance. He has testified before numerous U.S. Congressional committees, including the Senate Finance Committee, the House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services, and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He is the creator of the Brookings-Financial Times world index. His op-eds have appeared in the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, International Herald Tribune, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Prasad is also a Research Fellow at IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn). Prasad holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago.