Nariman Behravesh is Chief Economist at the consulting firm IHS Markit and author of Spin-Free Economics: A No-Nonsense, Nonpartisan Guide to Today's Global Economic Debates. Directing the entire economic forecasting process at IHS Markit, he is responsible for developing the economic outlook and risk analysis for the United States, Europe, Japan, China and other emerging markets. He oversees the work of over 400 professionals, located in North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa who cover economic, financial and political developments in over 200 countries. Behravesh is quoted extensively in the media on such topics as the outlook for the US and global economies, exchange rates, the budget deficit, the trade deficit, globalization, country risk and sovereign debt crises. Dr. Behravesh is a featured speaker at many of the top global conferences each year, including IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates CERA Week and the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Early life
A native of Iran and the son of an Iranian father and an English mother, Behravesh grew up in the Middle East and Europe and is fluent in Italian, French, Persian, and Turkish. Behravesh and his wife, Ann, an attorney, live in Lexington, Massachusetts, and have three children and two grandchildren. Behravesh obtained his BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and he earned his master's and Ph.D. in economics at the University of Pennsylvania, studying with Nobel Prize winner and econometrics pioneer Lawrence Klein founder of WEFA.
Career
Nariman Behravesh serves as the Chief Economist at IHS Inc. Before joining IHS, Behravesh was Chief Economist and Executive Vice President of Global Insight, Inc.. Prior to that, he was Chief International Economist for Standard & Poor's. He also held a number of other positions, including president and CEO of Oxford Economics U.S.A. and Group Senior Vice President of WEFA. Early in his career Behravesh worked at the Congressional Budget Office and the Federal Reserve. He has been covering the global economy for over 35 years.
Behravesh is a "Bloomberg Best" and ranked as one of Bloomberg's Top 10 economists in 2009 and 2010. MarketWatch named IHS Global Insight "Forecaster of the Year" in 2009 and bestowed the company several Forecaster of the Month accolades since. Behravesh and his team ranked first place on USA Today's 2004 ranking of economic forecasters, and on Reuters' 2004 survey of major currency exchange rate forecasters. In 2008, he was ranked #2 by USA Today. On The Wall Street Journal's annual ranking of US forecasters, Behravesh was ranked #3 for 2006 and he was the only forecaster to place in the top six for 2003, 2004 and 2006.
Publications
Behravesh is the author of Spin-Free Economics: A No-Nonsense, Nonpartisan Guide to Today's Global Economic Debates. He has authored numerous articles in such publications as European Affairs and Credit Week, co-authored two books-Economics U$A and Microcomputers, Corporate Planning and Decision Support Systems and was a contributing author to a book on scenario analysis, entitled Learning From the Future. His op-ed pieces have also appeared in the Financial Times, Newsweek International, London Times and the Boston Globe.
