Monroe joined the staff of the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee during 1987-90, focusing on European integration. He subsequently worked at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, co-authoring a book on the U.S. current account deficit.

Born in Chapel Hill, NC, Monroe graduated from Chapel Hill High School (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) in 1980, and went on to study mathematics at Davidson College as a Stuart Scholar. He then obtained his D.Phil. in Economics from Oxford University, studying under Prof. John Vickers, examining systems versus components competition in the computer industry

Hunter Monroe (born March 29, 1962) is an American economist, serving with the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee, Peterson Institute for International Economics, and International Monetary Fund. He was the IMF’s representative to Georgia (1996-99) and Honduras (2005-06). He has published in the areas of crypto-assets, natural gas markets, Ponzi schemes, and Caribbean economies, and outside of economics on computational complexity and theoretical physics. He was a Rhodes scholar. and term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.