Hélène Rey

Hélène Rey is the Lord Bagri Professor of Economics at London Business School. Formerly, she was Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University. Her research focuses on external imbalances, monetary policy and the financial sector, and the international monetary system. She introduced the idea of a global financial cycle and qualified the idea of the Mundellian Trilemma. Her numerous recognitions include a Sloan Fellowship, the Bernacer Prize, the Yrjö Jahnsson Award, and the inaugural Birgit Grödal and Carl Menger Awards. A Fellow of the Econometric Society and the British Academy, a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association, she is also a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques and an officer of the Order of the British Empire. Rey is Co-Editor of the Annual Review of Economics and Vice President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). She is a member of the Bellagio Group, of the Group of Thirty and of the Haut Conseil de Stabilité Financière, as well as serving on the external advisory group to the Managing Director of the IMF. She has been elected the 2025 President of the European Economic Association.