Lee Ohanian

Senior Fellow

Hoover Institution at Stanford University

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Lee Ohanian is Professor of Economics and Director of the Ettinger Family Program in Macroeconomic Research at UCLA, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is an advisor to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and previously advised other Federal Reserve Banks, Foreign Central Banks, and the National Science Foundation.

His research, which recently has been discussed in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and other media sources, focuses on economic crises, and as been published widely in a number of peer-reviewed journals. He is a frequent columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Newsweek, and CBS Moneyline. He currently serves on the editorial boards of three academic journals. He previously served on the faculties of the Universities of Minnesota and Pennsylvania, and has been a visiting professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, Arizona State and USC. He is co-director of the research initiative “Macroeconomics Across Time and Space” at the National Bureau of Economic Research.