Robert Alexander Mundell was a Canadian economist who was a professor of economics at Columbia University, McGill University, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1999 for his pioneering work in monetary dynamics and optimum currency areas. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1999, announced October 13, 1999. Robert Mundell, “for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas”. Robert Mundell: born 1932, Kingston, ON, Canada. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).