Paul de grauwe biography sampler

Belgian economist

Paul De Grauwe (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈpʌuldəˈɣrʌuə]; born 18 July 1946) is a Belgianeconomist and John Paulson Professor in European Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science as head of the European Institute.

He is also professor emeritus in international economics at KU Leuven and former member of the Belgian Federal Parliament.

Paul de grauwe biography sampler

Education and career

De Grauwe went to High School in the Klein Seminarie Roeselare, and studied economics at the Catholic University of Leuven from 1964 until 1969. Having received a scholarship from the Belgian Fulbright Commission, De Grauwe obtained his PhD degree at Johns Hopkins University in 1973.

He started to work as an intern at the European Economic Community in 1969 and later went on to become a research assistant, and subsequently a professor at the Center for Economic Studies of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

In 1973 De Grauwe began to work as an econom