Michael D. Bordo is a distinguished professor of economics emeritus at Rutgers University. He is the Duncan Stewart Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a distinguished visitor at the Griswold Center for Public Policy at Princeton University. He has held previous academic posts at the University of South Carolina and Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and was visiting professor at Cambridge, Princeton, Harvard, and other universities. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the Shadow Open Market Committee. He has a BA from McGill University, an MSc in economics from the London School of Economics, and a PhD from the University of Chicago.