IMF appoints new chief economist
by Jill Treanor from on (#EX9Y)
Maurice Obstfeld is an economic advisor to President Obama and University of California academic who voiced doubts in 1999 about the euro
An academic who has warned that the euro was a gamble has been named as chief economist at the International Monetary Fund.
Maurice Obstfeld, an economic adviser to Barack Obama, is on leave from the University of California at Berkeley.
