BIO
Born in Barcelona in Barcelona in 1961, he completed bachelor and master degrees at the Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas (ESADE), before obtaining a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He taught in the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University between 1989 and 1993, then took up a tenured position in the Department of Economics at New York University, where he remained until the year 2000. In 2005-2006 he was a visiting professor in the Department of Economics at MIT.
He is currently Director and Senior Researcher at the Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional and a professor of in the Department of Economics and Business at Pompeu Fabra University. He is also a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a Fellow of the Econometric Society.
Author of numerous papers in specialist journals, in 2008 he published the book Monetary Policy, Inflation and the Business Cycle. An Introduction to the New Keynesian Framework (Princeton University Press). He has also served as co-editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association and the European Economic Review. His research focuses on the causes and nature of macroeconomic fluctuations and the optimal design of monetary policy in models with nominal and real frictions.
Among other distinctions, Galí holds the Rey Jaime I Prize in Economics bestowed by the Valencian Regional Government (2004), and the 2005 Yrjo Jahnsson Award for the best European economist aged under 45.