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Nicholas R. Lardy is the Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

He joined the Institute in March 2003 from the Brookings Institution, where he was a senior fellow from 1995 until 2003. Before Brookings, he served at the University of Washington, where he was the director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies from 1991 to 1995. From 1997 through the spring of 2000, he was also the Frederick Frank Adjunct Professor of International Trade and Finance at the Yale University School of Management. He is an expert on the Chinese economy.

Lardy's most recent books are Markets over Mao: The Rise of Private Business in China (2014) and Sustaining China's Economic Growth after the Global Financial Crisis (2012). His previous books include The Future of China's Exchange Rate Policy (2009) (co-authored with Morris Goldstein), Integrating China into the Global Economy (2002), China’s Unfinished Economic Revolution (1998), China in the World Economy (1994), Foreign Trade and Economic Reform in China, 1978–1990 (1992); Agriculture in China’s Modern Economic Development (1983), and Economic Growth and Distribution in China (1978).

Lardy is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a member of the editorial boards of Asia Policy and the China Review

He received his BA from the University of Wisconsin in 1968 and his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1975, both in economics.