Marcus Noland

Deputy Director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics

April 26th, 2010

Area of Expertise: Business and Globalization, Development, International Relations, War and Conflict
Geographical Expertise - Region: Asia, North Africa and Middle East, North America
Geographical Expertise - Country: Korea
Language: English
Field of Work: Academia, Author/Novelist, Government, Think tank/Research center
City: Washington DC
Country: USA
Continent: North America

Email: marcus.noland@theglobalexperts.org

Marcus Noland is the Deputy Director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He formerly served as Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President of the United States. He is an expert on US-Japanese relations, and the economies of Japan and North Korea.

Dr. Noland has held research or teaching positions at Yale University, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Southern California, Tokyo University, Saitama University (now the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies), the University of Ghana, and the Korea Development Institute.

He has authored, co-authored, or edited numerous books including Pacific Basin Developing Countries: Prospects for the Future and Korea After Kim Jong-il; Japan in the World Economy; Pacific Dynamism and the International Economic System; Reconcilable Differences? Resolving United States-Japan Economic Conflict; Economic Integration of the Korean Peninsula (editor); Global Economic Effects of the Asian Currency Devaluations; No More Bashing: Building a New Japan-United States Economic Relationship; Industrial Policy in an Era of Globalization: Lessons from Asia; and Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform and Arab Economies in a Changing World. His book, Avoiding the Apocalypse: the Future of the Two Koreas, won the prestigious Ohira Memorial Prize. Noland’s most recent book is Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea.

In addition to these books, he has written many scholarly articles on international economics, US trade policy, and the economies of the Asia-Pacific region. He has served as an occasional consultant to organizations such as the World Bank and the National Intelligence Council, and has testified before the US Congress on numerous occasions. He is also currently a senior fellow at the East-West Center.

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