Peter Blair Henry is Associate Professor of Economics at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.  He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Senior Nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution.  From 2000-2001 he was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution.  From 2001-2005 he held a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.

Henry’s research on emerging markets provides fundamental insights about the impact of economic reform on the lives of people in developing countries.  It uses theory and data to grapple objectively with some of the most important and contentious economic questions of our time: Does debt relief help or hurt poor countries?  Should emerging nations permit capital to flow freely in and out of their economies?  Is it possible to stabilize inflation without undermining economic growth?  Henry’s answers to these questions appear in the top academic journals and have led him to testify before the US Congress and various UN Ambassadors.

Henry received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997.  Prior to attending MIT, Henry was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University where he received a B.A. in mathematics.  He also holds a B.A. in economics from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a Morehead Scholar, a National Merit Scholar, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a Marshall Scholar-Elect, a reserve wide receiver on the varsity football team, and a finalist in the 1991 campus-wide slam-dunk competition.