Benn Steil
Dr. Benn Steil is senior fellow and director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he is also the lead writer of their Geo-Graphics blog and the creator of eight web-based interactives tracking Global Monetary Policy, Global Imbalances, Global Trade, Global Growth, and more. He also writes a monthly column for Barron’s. He has written and spoken widely on international finance, monetary policy, financial markets, and economic and diplomatic history. He is the author of five books. His most recent, “The World That Wasn’t: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century,” was named in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Financial Times‘ “best books of 2024” lists. “The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War” won multiple awards, including the New York Historical Society’s Barbara and David Zalaznick Prize for best work on American history and the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Douglas Dillon Prize. He has testified before the U.S. House, Senate, and CFTC. Prior to joining the Council, he was the director of the International Economics Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in the UK and a Lloyd’s of London Tercentenary Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, where he received his MPhil and DPhil in economics.
