Lars Christensen, Senior Fellow

Lars Christensen is Chief Analyst and Head of Emerging Markets Research at Danske Bank, based in Copenhagen. He has worked there since 2001, before which he was an economic policy analyst at the Danish Ministry of Economic Affairs. He has a masters degree in economics from the University of Copenhagen. He wrote Milton Friedman: A Pragmatic Revolutionary in Danish in 2002 and has contributed to numerous other books as well as news media including The Telegraph, Bloomberg, Reuters, the Financial Times, City A.M., and Dow Jones. In 2006 he co-authored a report “Geyser Crisis” which forecasted a major economic crisis in Iceland.

His blog The Market Monetarist has since it was started in 2011 become one of the leading international blogs on monetary policy, and coined the name of a new and highly-influential eponymous neo-monetarist school of macroeconomics. Many other economists, particularly those who also blog, including David Beckworth and Scott Sumner, have adopted the name market monetarism to describe their theories. Lars is also the founder of the Global Monetary Policy Network, an informal network of individuals with an interest in monetary policy issues.