Peter Blair Henry is the Class of 1984 Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, as well as Dean Emeritus of New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. The youngest person ever named to the Stern Deanship, Peter doubled the school’s average annual fundraising during his tenure in the role. The former Konosuke Matsushita Professor of International Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where his research was funded by a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Peter’s peer-reviewed articles evaluate the impact of economic reform in emerging-market and developing economies on asset prices, investment, wages, and economic growth. His current research on the global infrastructure challenge builds on the scholarship in his book Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth (Basic Books, 2013), which addresses questions of economic efficiency and international relations, with the aim of increasing awareness of the interconnected fortunes of advanced and developing nations.

Chair of the board of the National Bureau of Economic Research, in addition to serving on the boards of Analog, Citigroup, and Nike, Peter received the 2022 Impactful Mentor Award from the American Economic Association for founding and leading the PhD Excellence Initiative. Recipient of the Foreign Policy Association Medal in 2015, a Carnegie Foundation Great Immigrant Award in 2016, and the Council on Economic Education Visionary Award in 2018, Peter was a member of President Obama’s Commission on White House Fellowships from 2009 to 2017. He is also a member of the G20 Africa Expert Panel, the World Bank President’s Economic Advisory Panel, and Chair of the Jamaica Recovery and Resilience Oversight Committee (JAMMROC).