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 has written and spoken widely on international finance, monetary policy, financial markets, and economic and diplomatic history. The author of four books, his most recent, “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, and is a regular op-ed writer and commentator on CNBC. 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. He also holds a BSc in economics summa cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
