Matthew Richardson (economist)

Matthew Richardson is a New York University, US, professor, the Charles E. Simon Professor of Applied Economics in the Finance Department at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He is also the Sidney Homer Director of the Salomon Center and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Richardson was drawn to media attention when apparently accidentally impersonated by a British University of Oxford engineering undergraduate by the same name, who took up the offer to perform a series of lectures in Beijing, managing to use a low level textbook to "blag" through two days of lectures before fleeing from his Chinese audience. He claims to have known "next to nothing" about the subject and used an A-level textbook as his notes.

External links

• Prof. Richardson's Homepage
• 'I blagged my way through, reading a torn-up textbook and ad libbing', An online version of the Daily Telegraph's article concerning the event.
• Student imposter bluffs way to China, The BBC News Online's article documenting the event.
• www.MatthewRichardson.com Matthew Richardson's own website. The site's journal does not extend back as far as the event itself but contains photos.
• Professor Matthew Riichardson on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart where he likens America's subprime mortgage crisis to the aftermath of a Godzilla and King Kong battle in downtown Tokyo.