Pierre Yared is vice chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the executive office of the US president. He is also the MUTB professor of international business at Columbia Business School. He previously served as the school’s senior vice dean for faculty affairs and vice dean for executive education. He teaches global economic environment, a core MBA course in macroeconomics, for which he received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence.

Yared’s research, which has been published in leading academic journals, examines the political economy of macroeconomic policy. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Economic Club of New York.

Yared holds a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University.