Nouriel Roubini

Nouriel Roubini established his academic reputation by earning a Ph.D. in International Economics from Harvard University, and he has served as a professor of economics at New York University (NYU). His career combines academic rigor with high-level consulting. He served as a senior economist for international affairs on the White House Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration and has worked as a consultant for key institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the Federal Reserve, giving him deep insight into global economic policies.

His global reputation was firmly established before the 2008 collapse. In 2006, Roubini was one of the few analysts to publicly warn of the imminent bursting of the subprime mortgage bubble in the United States, predicting the ensuing global financial crisis with remarkable accuracy. Although his forecasts were initially considered overly pessimistic and dismissed by many of his colleagues, the confirmation of his theories established him as a key figure in the critique of the economic and monetary policies of the time.

Roubini currently heads his own consulting and analysis firm, Roubini Global Economics (RGE). Through this platform, he remains an influential voice in macroeconomics, focusing on debt, asset bubbles, and systemic instability. His most recent analyses warn of the risks of a “stagflationary debt crisis”—the dangerous combination of economic stagnation with high inflation and massive debt—a scenario that, in his view, could exceed the severity of the 1970s oil crises and the 2008 financial collapse.

His critical and long-term perspective is reflected in his most recent book, *MegaThreats*. In this work, Roubini outlines a series of ten interconnected risks that, in his view, pose serious threats to the global future. These risks go beyond traditional economic cycles and include climate change, deglobalization, sociopolitical instability, and high levels of public and private debt.