Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas  Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas is a French economist who currently works as S.K. and Angela Chan Professor of Management at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also directs the Clausen Center for International Business and Policy and is affiliated with the Haas School of Business. His research focuses on macroeconomics, in particular international macroeconomics and international finance. In 2008, Gourinchas received the Prize of the Best Young Economist of France. Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas studied at the École Polytechnique (1987-90), École des Ponts et Chaussées (1990-93), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1993-96), obtaining a Ph.D. from the last with a thesis on exchange rates and consumption under Olivier Blanchard, Ricardo Caballero and Rudiger Dornbusch. Since his graduation, Gourinchas has held academic positions at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Princeton University, and - since 2003 - at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been the Director of the Clausen Center for International Business and Policy since 2013. Moreover, Gourinchas is also editor-in-chief of the "IMF Economic Review", managing editor of the "Journal of International Economics" and co-director of the NBER International Finance and Macroeconomics programme. Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas' research interests include consumption, precautionary savings, credit expansions, the forward premium anomaly, exchange rates and labour markets. According to IDEAS/RePEc, Gourinchas belongs to the top 2% of economists as ranked by research output.