Eswar Prasad is the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he holds the New Century Chair in International Economics, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a former head of the IMF’s China Division.

Prasad’s new book, The Doom Loop: Why the World Economic Order Is Spiraling into Disorder (Hachette), will be released in February 2026. His previous book, The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution is Transforming Currencies and Finance (Harvard University Press, 2021), was listed among the best economics books of the year by the Economist, Financial Times, and Foreign Affairs. Prasad is also the author of Gaining Currency: The Rise of the Renminbi (Oxford, 2016) and The Dollar Trap: How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance (Princeton, 2014). His op-ed articles have appeared in the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.   

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