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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Roubini shuts India Centre

NEW DELHI: Renowned US economist Nouriel Roubini, who has been referred to as "Dr Doom" for predicting the 2008 financial crisis, has downed the shutters on his India centre nearly two years after setting up shop in Asia's third-largest economy.

Roubini had chosen India as one of his key centres for economic research and analysis. This is his third centre after New York and London. The centre, which began operations in July 2011, was closed down a few months ago, sources said.

Nearly 10 staffers, including economists, were asked to leave and were given the statutory three-month notice, sources said. They said the company, which is widely regarded for its top-notch economic research and analysis, failed to penetrate the Indian market.

TOI sent a detailed questionnaire to Richard Green, CEO of Roubini Global Economics, asking him about the closure of the India centre. Green sent a short reply saying the firm remained committed to India and Asia. "We remain very committed to India and the wider Asian marketplace, but I'm afraid we are a private company and we don't comment on our internal and external strategy," Green told TOI in an email.
- in http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/2-years-on-Dr-Doom-shuts-India-centre/articleshow/20282312.cms

Nouriel Roubini, (born March 29, 1958, Istanbul, Turkey), Turkish-born American economist and educator who was best known for predicting the 2007–08 subprime mortgage crisis in the United States and the subsequent global financial crisis.

Born to Iranian Jewish parents, Roubini moved with his family to Iran and Israel before they settled in Italy in 1962. After a year at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he studied economics at Bocconi University in Milan (B.A., 1982) and Harvard University (Ph.D., 1988), where he specialized in macroeconomics and international economics. He joined the economics faculty at Yale University in 1988 and taught there until 1995, when he moved to New York University. He also served as a visiting scholar to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), held single-year terms on the White House Council of Economic Advisers (1998–99) and at the U.S. Department of the Treasury (1999–2000), and cofounded (2004) the consulting firm Roubini Global Economics. Roubini spent much of his early career studying countries that experienced extreme economic failures, such as Mexico (in 1994), Thailand and other countries associated with the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Russia (1998), and Argentina (2000). He determined that each shared one common element: a massive current account deficit.(www.britannica.com)

Nouriel Roubini is the Chairman and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates, LLC, his own global macroeconomic consultancy firm. He is also a professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Dr. Roubini has extensive policy experience as well as broad academic credentials. From 1998 to 2000, he served as the senior economist for international affairs on the White House Council of Economic Advisors and then the senior advisor to the undersecretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department, helping to resolve the Asian and global financial crises, among other issues. The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and numerous other prominent public and private institutions have drawn upon his consulting expertise.