Peter B. Henry
Dr. Henry has served as the Class of 1984 Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies since September 2022. Previously, Dr. Henry served at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business as William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Finance from January 2018 through August 2022 and as Dean from January 2010 through December 2017. Before that, Dr. Henry was the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of International Economics at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where his early research was funded by a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
Dr. Henry currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Citigroup and NIKE, Inc., and as Chair of the Board of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He previously served on the Boards of Directors of General Electric Company, Kraft Foods Inc., and Kraft Foods Group, Inc. as well as the Economic Club of New York. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
In addition, Dr. Henry leads the Ph.D. Excellence Initiative, a post-baccalaureate program designed to address underrepresentation in economics by mentoring exceptional students from underrepresented backgrounds interested in pursuing doctoral studies in the field. For his founding and leadership of the Ph.D. Excellence Initiative, Dr. Henry received the 2022 Impactful Mentoring Award from the American Economic Association.
Dr. Henry has published groundbreaking articles in top economics journals that evaluate the impact of economic reform on asset prices, investment, wages, and economic growth. His current research on the global infrastructure challenge builds on the scholarship in his book, Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth (Basic Books, 2013), which addresses questions of economic efficiency as well as international relations, with the aim of increasing awareness of the interconnected fortunes of advanced and developing nations.
Dr. Henry received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.