Eswar Prasad

Senior Professor of Trade Policy and Professor of Economics, Cornell University

Eswar Prasad is the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy and professor of economics at Cornell University. He is also a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he holds the New Century Chair in International Trade and Economics, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a former head of the IMF’s China Division. Prasad’s latest book is “The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution is Transforming Currencies and Finance” (Harvard University Press, September 2021). He is also the author of “Gaining Currency: The Rise of the Renminbi” (Oxford, 2016), and “The Dollar Trap: How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance” (Princeton, 2014). His extensive publication record includes articles in numerous collected volumes as well as top academic journals such as the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, the Economic Journal, International Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, Journal of International Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics. He has co-authored and edited numerous books and monographs, including on financial regulation and on China and India.