Participant Biographies

Benn Steil

Benn Steil

Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations
Plenary Session 2 - "Global Financial Order After 2008"

Dr. Steil is senior fellow and director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He is also the founding editor of International Finance, a top scholarly economics journal, and lead writer of the Council’s Geo-Graphics economics blog. His latest book, The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order, won the 2013 Spear’s Book Award in Financial History, was the top book-of-the-year choice in Bloomberg’s poll of global policymakers and CEOs, and is on the shortlist for the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize. Prior to his joining the Council in 1999, he was director of the International Economics Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. He came to the Institute in 1992 from a Lloyd’s of London Tercentenary Research Fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford, where he received his M.Phil. and D.Phil. (PhD) in economics.