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Robert Barbera, Ph.D.
 Dr. Robert J. Barbera is Executive Vice President and Chief Economist at ITG, Investment Technology Group, New York. He is responsible for ITG’s global economic and financial market forecasts. Dr. Barbera has spent the last 26 years as a Wall Street economist, earning a wide institutional following. He is a frequent guest on CNBC and is regularly quoted in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
In 2009, Dr. Barbera authored The Cost of Capitalism: Market Mayhem and Stabilizing Our Economic Future. The book identifies the root causes of the Great Crisis of 2008. It also identifies key policy prescriptions for economic recovery and offers commentary about the shape of capitalism in the decades to come.
Dr. Barbera currently is a Fellow in the Economics Department of The Johns Hopkins University. He has been teaching applied macroeconomics at Hopkins for the last five years.
Early in his career, Dr. Barbera served as a staff economist for U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas and as an economist for the Congressional Budget Office. Dr. Barbera also lectured at M.I.T. from 1994-1996 and he was Co-Chairman of Capital Investment International, a New York based research boutique. Dr. Barbera earned both his B.A. and Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University.
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