Thomas Philippon
Biography
Thomas Philippon is Professor of Finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business.
Professor Philippon graduated from École Polytechnique, received a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and joined New York University as Professor of Finance in 2003. He currently serves on the Monetary Policy Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and as a board member and Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, the French prudential regulator of banks and insurance companies. From 2012 to 2013 he was Senior Economic Advisor to the French Finance Minister.
Professor Philippon was named one of “25 economists under 45 who are shaping the way we think about the global economy” by the IMF in 2014. He also won the 2013 Germán Bernácer Prize, the 2010 Michael J. Brennan & BlackRock Best Paper Award, the 2009 Best Young Economist of France Award and the 2008 Brattle Prize in Corporate Finance. He was elected Global Economic Fellow by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in 2009.
Professor Philippon has studied various topics in macroeconomics and finance, including systemic risk, crisis resolution mechanisms, the dynamics of corporate investment and household debt, and the size of the finance industry. His recent work has focused on the European sovereign debt crisis and financial regulation.