Thorvaldur Gylfason

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is a patronymic or matronymic, not a family name; this person is properly referred to by the given name Þorvaldur.

Thorvaldur Gylfason (born July 18, 1951) is an Icelandic economist who has been active in Icelandic public life.[1][2] On November 27, 2010, he was elected to be a delegate at the Icelandic Constitutional Assembly in 2011.[3][4]

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Education

Gylfason received the PhD degree in Economics at Princeton University in 1976. In 1973 he received the B.A. degree in Economics at the University of Manchester.

Career

Thorvaldur Gylfason is Professor of Economics at the University of Iceland since 1983. He was Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton 1986-1988. Prior to this he was an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington 1976-1981.

Gylfason has been active in international policy debate as a Research Fellow at CESifo (Center for Economic Studies) at the University of Munich, Research Associate at the Center for U.S.- Japan Business and Economic Studies at New York University, and Fellow of the European Economic Association. He was Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University 1978-1996, and Research Fellow at CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) in London 1987-2009. In recent years, he has been a frequent consultant to the International Monetary Fund and also the World Bank, the European Commission, and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).[5] He was chairman of the failed Icelandic bank Kaupthing from 1986 to 1990.

Publications

In the field of economics, Thorvaldur Gylfason has published numerous books, scientific papers in international journals and scholarly articles in his native Icelandic. He co-authored a book on the market economy, which has been translated into seventeen languages, including Russian and Chinese.[6]

Public debate

Gylfason has written regular columns on a wide range of subjects in the Icelandic newspaper Fréttablaðið since the early 2000s. He has been more prominent since the banking collapse of 2008.

Private life

Thorvaldur Gylfason is the son of former Finance Minister Gylfi Th. Gislason and brother of philosopher Thorsteinn Gylfason and politician Vilmundur Gylfason. He is married.

References

  1. ^ "PBS: How Severe Is Europe’s Intertwined Debt Crisis?" January 24, 2011.
  2. ^ "Réttar ákvarðanir í hruninu" (in Icelandic), Morgunblaðið, January 25, 2011
  3. ^ "Thorvaldur undisputed winner" (in Icelandic). Morgunblaðið, December 2, 2010.
  4. ^ "Election outcome" (in Icelandic). The Constitutional Assembly web page, November 30, 2010.
  5. ^ CV of Thorvaldur Gylfason
  6. ^ Understanding the Market Economy by Arne Jon Isachsen, Thorvaldur Gylfason and Carl B Hamilton. Oxford University Press, December, 1992.

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