Paul Romer

The winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics, Professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business at New York University, former Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank, is an American economist and policy entrepreneur who was one of the main founders of the New Growth Theory. He is currently a professor of economics at the Stern School of Business at New York University and director of the Marlon Institute of Urban Management, Malone Urban Management Research Institute is committed to collaborating with citizen innovation advocates to improve urban management and make cities safer, healthier, and more inclusive. He is also the co founder and main leader of the \Urbanization\ program at New York University Stern School of Business. This project focuses on how policy makers can create economic opportunities and promote systemic social reforms through the growth rate and scale of cities. Professor Romer has previously taught at Stanford University School of Business, the University of California, the University of Chicago, and the University of Rochester. He is a researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as a visiting scholar at the Washington Center for Global Development and the MacDonald Laurier Institute in Ottawa. In 2016, he served as the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank. In 2001, Professor Romer founded \Aplia\, an educational technology company dedicated to enhancing students' extracurricular engagement and classroom engagement. So far, students have submitted over 1 billion answers to homework questions on the Aplia website. In 2002, Professor Romer was awarded the Recktenwald Prize 2018 for his ideas on maintaining economic growth. Paul Romer incorporated \integrated technological innovation into long-term macroeconomic analysis\ and, together with Yale University economics professor William Nordhaus, reshaped people's understanding of the long-term determinants of economic growth.