Nouriel Roubini

Nouriel Roubini (born March 29, 1958) is an American economist and is chairman of Roubini Macro Associates LLC, an economic consultancy firm. He is a lecturer at New York University's Stern School of Business. 
Early life and education.
Roubini was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He holds B.A., summa cum laude, in economics from Bocconi University. He received his Ph.D. in international economics from Harvard University in 1988, where his adviser was Jeffrey Sachs.
Roubini is a global citizen. He is fluent in English, Persian, Italian, Hebrew, and conversational French. He is a cousin of leading technology expert and former "PC Magazine" lead technology analyst Jonathan Roubini.
Career.
Roubini combined academic research with policy making by teaching at Yale and then in New York, while also being employed at the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve, World Bank, and Bank of Israel. He is now a professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University. He once said "I've been studying emerging markets for 20 years, and saw the same signs in the U.S. that I saw in them, which was that we were in a massive credit bubble,"
He joined Clinton administration in 1998 as a economist in the White House Council of Economic Advisers and later moved to the Treasury department as a senior adviser to Timothy Geithner, then the undersecretary for international affairs, who in 2009 became Treasury secretary in the Obama administration.
He acknowledges a quite number of economists for his understanding of economics, stating: