Nouriel Roubini (nicknamed “Dr. Doom”; born March 9 1958) is a Turkish-born Iranian-American economist. He is a Professor Emeritus since 2021 at the Stern School of Business of New York University. After he received a BA in political economics at Bocconi University in Italy and a doctorate in international economics at Harvard University, he was an academic at Yale and a researcher/advisor. His early research focused on emerging markets. In the 1990s, during the Bill Clinton administration, for one year he was a senior economist in the Council of Economic Advisers, and the following year he was a senior adviser to Timothy Geithner (who was then the Treasury Department undersecretary for international affairs). Early life and education Roubini was born in Istanbul, Turkey, to Iranian-Jewish parents. When he was a year old, his family lived briefly in Tehran, Iran. When he was three years old, the family moved to Tel Aviv, Israel. From 1962 to 1983 he lived in Italy, primarily in Milan, where he attended the local Jewish school. He later attended Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel for one year. He subsequently attended Bocconi University in Italy, earning a B.A. ('82) summa cum laude in economics; in 2009 he was named Bocconian of the Year. He received a Ph.D. in international economics from Harvard University in 1988, where his adviser was Jeffrey Sachs. Roubini is a US citizen. Career For much of the 1990s, Roubini taught at Yale and then in New York, while also working for stints at the International Monetary Fund (briefly, as a summer intern and visiting scholar), World Bank (briefly, as a consultant), Federal Reserve, and Bank of Israel. In 1998-99, he worked for one year in the Clinton administration as a senior economist in the Council of Economic Advisers. In 1999-2000, he worked for a year at the Treasury department as a senior adviser to Timothy Geithner (who was then the undersecretary for international affairs). Roubini returned to the IMF in 2001 as a visiting scholar while it addressed a financial meltdown in Argentina. He cowrote a book on saving bankrupt economies entitled, Bailouts or Bail-ins? and started a consulting firm. He said: “One person who has had a great impact on me intellectually was Jeffrey Sachs... Another … is Larry Summers, the former President of Harvard.” Currently, he is a professor emeritus at the Stern School of Business at New York University.