Jeffrey A. Frankel is James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University. He is on the NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee which officially declared the 2001 recession. Appointed by former President Bill Clinton in 1996 to his Council of Economic Advisers, Frankel's responsibilities included international economics, macroeconomics, and environment. Before coming to Harvard in 1999, he was Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, having joined the faculty in 1979. Past appointments include positions at the Federal Reserve, Institute for International Economics, International Monetary Fund, University of Michigan, and Yale. His research interests include international finance, monetary and fiscal policy, regional blocs, Asia, commodity prices, and international environmental issues. He was Advisor on the International Economics Team and Overall Economics Team for the John Kerry for President Committee in 2004, Member of the Global Climate Change Council Policy Initiative Advisory Committee, Council on Foreign Relations (2003-04), and Member of the Commission on The Future of the UK outside the Euro (2002-03). He received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1978.