Paul De Grauwe is a Belgian economist currently serving as the John Paulson Professor in European Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he heads the European Institute. He also holds the title of professor emeritus in international economics at KU Leuven.
De Grauwe pursued his economics studies at the Catholic University of Leuven from 1964 to 1969 and earned his PhD in Economics from Johns Hopkins University in 1973.