Simon Johnson

MIT and CEPR

Simon Johnson is the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Sloan School of Management, MIT, having recently finished two years as an Assistant Director in the IMF's Research Department. He is a Research Associate at the NBER and a co-organizer of the NBER’s informal meeting on African Success Stories in April 2006. He currently co-chairs the Taskforce on Latin American Reforms at the CGD in Washington D.C.
Professor Johnson works with most of the leading research organizations focused on development issues. He is a CEPR Research Fellow, a BREAD affiliate, a member of the International Advisory Board of CASE in Warsaw, and a non-resident scholar at the Asian Institute for Corporate Governance of Korea University.