Jeffry Alan Frieden is the Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University and chair of Harvard University's Department of Government.^[1][2] According to the Open Syllabus Project, he is one of the most cited authors on college syllabi for political science courses.^[3]

Frieden received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1979 and his Ph.D. in 1984.^[4] His research specializes in the politics of international monetary and financial relations.

His 2006 book Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century was called "one of the most comprehensive histories of modern capitalism yet written" by Michael Hirsh of The New York Times.^[5]

His other books include Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy (2015) and (with Menzie Chinn) Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery (2011).

Frieden is also the co-author and editor of political science textbooks World Politics Interests, Interactions, Institutions and International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth.

He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.^[6]

His brother is Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the Obama administration and Health Commissioner of New York City under mayor Michael Bloomberg.^[7]