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Sunday, October 26, 2014

Roubini in MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica

There are plenty of challenges in this part of the world and a lot needs to be done. A lot of the work will require co-ordination and co-operation [among] the countries in the region. At the end of the day, greater trade and economic integration have to be part of the solution,” said Professor Nouriel Roubini of the New York University (NYU).
Roubini was addressing the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) High-Level Caribbean Forum at the Montego Bay Convention Centre, in Rose Hall on Friday. “Policies are not just [to be] national policies, but regional policies, with the support, of course, of the international community. That might be one way of dealing with the fundamental problems [such as] vulnerabilities to natural disasters… of being a small country and being subject to economic shocks of one sort or another,” he pointed out.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/New-York-University-professor-makes-case-for-deepening-regional-integration

Nouriel Roubini is an American professor of Economics at New York University`s Stern School of Business and chairman of RGE Roubini Global Economics

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.