MIT Economics Professor Simon Johnson Named HuffPost Contributing Business Editor
The Huffington Post went back to school to add a contributing business editor, and it chose a pretty prestigious school, at that.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management economics professor Simon Johnson accepted HuffPost’s assignment, and he will write for the site and help to shape its business coverage.
This won’t be Johnson’s first writing rodeo, as he is also a weekly contributor to The New York Times‘ Economix, has a monthly column with Project Syndicate that runs in publications globally, and has published opinion pieces in The Atlantic, The New Republic, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, and The Financial Times.
Johnson served as the International Monetary Fund’s economic counselor (chief economist) and director of its research department from March 2007-August 2008, and he is the co-author, with James Kwak, of 13 Bankers, a blueprint for American fiscal policy, to be published by Pantheon March 30.
HuffPost co-founder and editor in chief Arianna Huffington said:
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