Brett House

Brett House is Professor of Professional Practice in the Economics Division and Senior Scholar in the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business at Columbia Business School. His research and writing are focused on macroeconomics and international finance, with interests in fiscal issues, monetary policy, international trade, financial crises, and debt markets. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and international media. Brett's contributions to the class experience at CBS were recognized with the 2026 Faculty Commitment to Excellence Award. 

Prof. House is also a Fellow with Canada’s Public Policy Forum and a Senior Fellow with the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Massey College. Earlier in his career he held teaching and research positions with McGill University, the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Keble College Oxford, and the University of Cape Town.

Previously, Prof. House was Deputy Chief Economist at Scotiabank, Canada’s third-largest and most international universal bank. Earlier, he was Chief Economist at a Toronto-based asset-management start-up and Global Strategist at a New York-based global macro hedge fund. He cut his teeth in financial markets at Goldman Sachs and the World Bank.

In policy-making roles, Prof. House was an Economist at the International Monetary Fund for nearly a decade, where he worked on emerging-markets financing. He was also Principal Advisor on Economic Issues in the Office of United Nations Secretary-General during the global financial crisis.

Prof. House holds degrees in economics from Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario, and the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.