Robert Mundell

Robert Alexander Mundell C.C. (born October 24, 1932) is a professor of economics at Columbia University. Mundell was born in Canada and is a graduate of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he obtained his PhD in Economics in 1956. He also attended the London School of Economics and was a top performer in his years there. He went on to win the 1999 Nobel Prize in Economics. Since 1974 he has been a professor in the Economics department at Columbia University; since 2001 he has held Columbia's highest academic rank - University Professor. He was also economics professor at McGill University and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. In 2002 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. Robert Mundell, chair of economics at University of Waterloo in the 1970s, laid the groundwork for the introduction of the euro through his pioneering work in monetary dynamics... full article at wikipedia