Andrew Hughes Hallett is Professor of Economics and Public Policy in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and in the School of Economics at St Andrews University in Scotland. Previously he was Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University and at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. He is a graduate of the University of Warwick (UK) and London School of Economics, holds a Doctorate from Oxford University. He has been Visiting Professor and Fulbright Fellow at Princeton University, Bundesbank Professor at the Free University of Berlin, and has held visiting positions at the Universities of Warwick, Frankfurt, Rome, Paris X, Cardiff, Copenhagen and the Kennedy School at Harvard.



Beyond the academic world, he has acted as consultant to the World Bank and the IMF; also the Peterson Institute for International Economics; and to the UN, OECD, the European Commission, the European Central Bank, to various governments and a number of central banks.