Maurice Moses "Maury" Obstfeld (born March 19, 1952) is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley and previously Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund.

He graduated from University of Pennsylvania summa cum laude, Cambridge and MIT, where received his Ph.D. in 1979.

Obstfeld serves as honorary advisor to the Bank of Japan's Institute of Monetary and Economic Studies.

Obstfeld is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

[4] On June 3, 2014, the White House announced that Obstfeld would join the Council of Economic Advisers as lead macroeconomist.