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Simon Johnson

Professor of Management, Sloan School, Massachussetts Institute of Technology
sjohnson@mit.edu

Biography

Simon Johnson is the Ronald A. Kurtz Associate Professor at the Sloan School of Management, MIT.  He is a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER research groups on corporate finance and international macroeconomics, a member of the International Advisory Board of CASE in Warsaw, and a non-resident scholar at the Asian Institute for Corporate Governance of Korea University.  He is also on the Global Advisory Board of Endeavor, an organization that promotes entrepreneurship in emerging markets.

In 2000-2001 Professor Johnson was a member of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Advisory Committee on Market Information.  His assessment of the need for continuing strong market regulation is published as part of the final report of that committee.

Professor Johnson's research focuses on the institutions that support or prevent growth.  Most of his work deals with emerging markets, and draws on extensive fieldwork in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, East Asia, and Latin America.  Recent papers have appeared in the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization.  He regularly uses these research findings, in association with the Brattle Group, to provide advice on emerging markets.