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Peter Blair Henry received his first lesson in international economics at the age of eight, when his family moved from the Caribbean island of Jamaica to affluent Wilmette, Illinois. Upon arrival in the United States, he wondered why people in his new home seemed to have so much more than people in Jamaica. The elusive answer to the question of why the average standard of living can be so different from one country to another still drives him today as a Professor of Economics in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Peter began his academic career on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a wide receiver on the varsity football team and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate in economics. With an intrinsic love of learning and a desire to make the world a better place, he knew that he wanted a career as an economist. He also knew that a firm foundation in mathematics would help him to answer the real-life questions that fueled his passion for economics—a passion that earned him a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, where he received a B.A. in mathematics.
PETER BLAIR HENRY International Economist
This foundation in mathematics prepared Peter for graduate study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he received his Ph.D. in economics. While in graduate school, he served as a consultant to the Governors of the Bank of Jamaica and the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB). His research at the ECCB helped provide the intellectual foundation for establishing the first stock market in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Area. His research and teaching at Stanford has been funded by the National Science Foundation’s Early Career Development Program (CAREER), which recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. Peter is also a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research
Peter Blair Henry received his first lesson in international economics at the age of eight, when his family moved from the Caribbean island of Jamaica to affluent Wilmette, Illinois. Upon arrival in the United States, he wondered why people in his new home seemed to have so much more than people in Jamaica. The elusive answer to the question of why the average standard of living can be so different from one country to another still drives him today as a Professor of Economics in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Peter began his academic career on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a wide receiver on the varsity football team and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate in economics. With an intrinsic love of learning and a desire to make the world a better place, he knew that he wanted a career as an economist. He also knew that a firm foundation in mathematics would help him to answer the real-life questions that fueled his passion for economics—a passion that earned him a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, where he received a B.A. in mathematics.
PETER BLAIR HENRY International Economist
This foundation in mathematics prepared Peter for graduate study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he received his Ph.D. in economics. While in graduate school, he served as a consultant to the Governors of the Bank of Jamaica and the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB). His research at the ECCB helped provide the intellectual foundation for establishing the first stock market in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Area. His research and teaching at Stanford has been funded by the National Science Foundation’s Early Career Development Program (CAREER), which recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. Peter is also a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research