Professor Richard N. Cooper is Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University and has held this position since 1981.

Previously, he has been

• Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (1995-97)
• Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (1990-1992)
• Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1977-81) and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Monetary Affairs (1965-66) for the U.S. Department of State
• Provost (1972-74), Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics (1966-77), and assistant professor (1963-65) at Yale University
• Senior staff economist on the Council of Economic Advisers (1961-63)

Honors and professional activities include

• Director and Chairman
  • Advisory Committee, Institute for International Economics
• Director
  • Circuit City Stores
  • Phoenix Companies
  • Center for Naval Analysis
• Member
  • Trilateral Commission
  • Council on Foreign Relations
  • Aspen Strategy Group
  • Executive Panel, Chief of Naval Operations, U.S. Navy
  • Brookings Panel on Economic Activity
• Book reviewer for Foreign Affairs
• Former director
  • Oberlin College
  • Warburg-Pincus Funds
  • Overseas Development Council
  • Rockefeller Brothers Fund
  • German Marshall Fund
  • World Peace Foundation
  • J. Henry Schroder Bank and Trust Co.
  • Panama Canal Company
  • Centre for European Policy Studies
  • Council on Foreign Relations
• Former member
  • National Research Council Panels
    • on Technology Transfer
    • on Public Policy toward Global Warming
    • on Foreign Trade Statistics
    • on Government Assistance to Civilian Technology
  • Advisory Committee of the Committee for Economic Development
  • Economic Policy Committee of the United Nations Association
• Former associate editor
  • Journal of International Economics
  • Journal of Conflict Resolution
  • Foreign Policy
• Former consultant to
  • Council of Economic Advisers
  • National Security Council
  • U.S. State Department
  • U.S. Treasury Dept.
  • United Nations
  • World Bank

Awards include

• Foreign Affairs Award, U.S. State Department, 1981
• National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, 1996

Prof. Cooper has written extensively on international economic policy. Selected publications include

• The Economics of Interdependence, Columbia University Press, 1968
• A Re-ordered World (editor and contributor), 1973
• Economic Policy in an Interdependent World, 1986
• The International Monetary System, 1987
• Can Nations Agree? (co-author), 1989
• Economic Stabilization and Debt in Developing Countries, 1992
• Boom, Crisis and Adjustment: the Macroeconomic Experience of Developing Countries (co-author), 1993
• Environment and Resource Policies for the World Economy, 1994
• Macroeconomic Policy and Adjustment in Korea, 1970-1990 (editor and contributor), 1994
• Trade Growth in Transition Economies (co-editor and contributor), 1997
• What the Future Holds (co-editor and contributor), 2002
• "The Balance of Payments in Review," Journal of Political Economy, 1966
• "Uncertainty and Diversification in International Trade" (with W. C. Brainard), Stanford Studies in Agricultural Economics, Trade, and Development, 1968
• "Macroeconomic Policy Adjustment in Interdependent Economies," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1969
• "Prolegomena to the Choice of an International Monetary System," International Organization, 1975
• "A New International Economic Order for Mutual Gain," Foreign Policy, 1977
• "The Gold Standard: Historical Facts and Future Prospects," Brookings Papers in Economic Activity, 1982
• "A Monetary System for the Future," Foreign Affairs, 1984
• "Economic Interdependence and the Coordination of Economic Policies," R. Jones and P. Kenen (eds.), Handbook in International Economics, 1985
• "Is Growth in Developing Countries Beneficial to Industrial Countries?" World Bank Conference on Development Economics, 1995
• "Toward a Global Warming Treaty," Foreign Affairs, 1998
• "Should Capital Controls Be Banished?" Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1999
• "Growth and Inequality: the Role of Foreign Trade and Investment," World Bank Conference on Development Economics, 2001/2002
• "International Approaches to Global Climate Change," World Bank Research Observer, 2000
• "Toward a Common Currency?" International Finance, 2000
• "A Chapter 11 for Countries?" Foreign Affairs, 2002
• "A Half Century of Development," World Bank Conference on Development, 2005

as well as over three hundred articles.

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