Robert Johnson

Dr. Robert A. Johnson is the executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, a newly formed research and grantmaking organization formed to develop fresh approaches to economic theory and policy. George Soros has pledged $50 million to the effort. Dr. Johnson also currently serves on the United Nations Commission of Experts on International Monetary Reform under the chairmanship of Joseph Stiglitz. He is also the director of economic policy for the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in New York.

Dr. Johnson was previously a managing director at Soros Fund Management where he managed a global currency, bond, and equity portfolio specializing in emerging markets. Prior to that time, Dr. Johnson was a managing director of Bankers Trust Company managing a global currency fund. He also served as chief economist of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee under the leadership of Chairman William Proxmire (D-WI) and before that, he was senior economist of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee under the leadership of Chairman Pete Domenici (R-NM).

Dr. Johnson received a Ph.D. and an M.A. in economics from Princeton University. He received a B.S. in both electrical engineering and economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.