Ralph C. Bryant

RALPH C. BRYANT began his current position as Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies program of the Brookings Institution in 1976 and is the Edward M. Bernstein Scholar at Brookings. He is also is co-organizer of the Brookings project, The Global Dimensions of Demographic Change, which carries out research on the consequences for the world economy of population aging and brings together economists from around the world to share their research. His primary fields of expertise are international economics, monetary economics, and macroeconomic policy. Previously, he was Director of the International Finance Division at the Federal Reserve Board and the International Economist for the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee. He has frequently participated in advisory groups and served as consultant to organizations such as the Federal Reserve, the US Treasury, the Congressional Budget Office, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the National Science Foundation. He has also held faculty positions as a Professor of International Finance at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and as a Program Director for the South East Asia, New Zealand and Australia central banking course. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history, the arts and letters and a doctorate in economics from Yale University. He also received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Oxford University.