Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Speaker Biographies
Anne Krueger has been the first deputy-managing director of the International Monetary Fund since September 2001 and is presently the IMF's acting managing director. Before coming to the fund, Ms. Krueger was the Herald L. and Caroline L. Ritch Professor in Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. She was also the founding director of Stanford's Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Ms Krueger previously taught at the University of Minnesota and Duke University and, from 1982 to 1986, was the World Bank's vice president for economics and research. Ms. Krueger is a distinguished fellow and past president of the American Economic Association, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Vincent Truglia is a managing director and cohead of the Sovereign Risk Unit of Moody's Investors Service. Before joining Moody's, he worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Previously, he was a vice president and an international economist for the Irving Trust Co. at the Bank of New York and an international economist for Bank of America.
Charles W. Calomiris is a visiting scholar and the codirector of the Project on Financial Deregulation at AEI. He is also the Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions in the Department of Finance and Economics; the director of the Program on Financial Institutions at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business; and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Mr. Calomiris has written many papers and several books on financial institutions, financial economics, and financial history. He has been a consultant on financial regulation for the Federal Reserve Board; the Federal Reserve Banks of New York, Chicago, and St. Louis; the World Bank; the Central Bank of Argentina; and the governments of Mexico, El Salvador, China, and Japan.
Desmond Lachman is a resident scholar at AEI whose research focuses on global currencies, major emerging market economies, and the role of the multilateral lending institutions. He writes extensively on topics such as economic policy, fund arrangements, monetary reform, import restrictions, and exchange rates. Before joining AEI, Mr. Lachman was a managing director and chief emerging market economic strategist at Salomon Smith Barney. Previously, he was deputy director in the Policy Development and Review Department at the International Monetary Fund.
Edwin M. Truman is a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics. He was assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury for International Affairs from December 1998 until January 2001. Before joining the U.S. Treasury, he was on the staff of the Federal Reserve. He was on the staff of the Federal Open Market Committee and was also director, and later staff director, of the Division of International Finance's Board of Governors for the Federal Reserve System. Mr. Truman has been a member of numerous international groups working on economic and financial issues, including the Financial Stability Forum's Working Group on Highly Leveraged Institutions, G-10 Working Group on the Resolution of Sovereign Liquidity Crises, and G-7 Working Group on Exchange Market Intervention. His writing focuses on international monetary economics, international debt problems, economic development, and European economic integration.
Nouriel Roubini is an associate professor of economics and international business at the Stern School of Business at New York University. His other current positions include research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Previously, he was an adviser to the U.S. Treasury Department (2000-2001); senior adviser to the under secretary of state for international affairs; director of the Office of Policy Development and Review at the U.S. Treasury (1999-2000); and senior economist for international affairs at the White House Council of Economic Advisers (1998-1999). He also taught in Yale University's Department of Economics and was a visiting economist and consultant for the International Monetary Fund (1988-2003).
Guillermo Mondino serves as LatinSource's economist in Argentina and is the founder of MacroVISION, a consulting firm in Buenos Aires. Previously, he was secretary of economic policy and the 2001 chief of the Cabinet of Economic Advisers to Argentina's Ministry of Economy. He was chief adviser to the government of Ecuador during its dollarization and debt-restructuring program and has acted as a consultant to the governments of Indonesia, Ukraine, and Mexico. In addition, he was instrumental in the foundation of IERAL (Instituto de Estudios sobre la Realidad Argentina y Latinoamericana), a prestigious think tank based in Argentina. He still serves as its chief economist. Mr. Mondino was a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, where he was later named assistant professor of business and economics. He has advised investment banks, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the IMF, as well as various corporations worldwide.
Adam Lerrick holds the Friends of Allan H. Meltzer Chair in Economics and is director of the Gailliot Center for Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. His teaching and research interests include monetary economics, international finance, financial markets, and the role of the international financial institutions in the world economy. He has served as an adviser to the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, as an adviser to the Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, and as a senior adviser to the chairman of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission.
Hans Humes is a managing partner and a cochairman of the Global Committee of Argentina Bondholders at Van Eck Global. He holds over thirteen years of experience in emerging markets fixed income as a managing partner at Greylock Capital Management, LLC. From 1994 to 1995, he was managing director of the Weston Group, and from 1991 to 1994, he was vice president for emerging markets fixed income at Lehman Brothers. He has also served as vice president at Banco Santander, where he handled proprietary $100 million investments in LDC debt, structured and executed debt/debt swap, and purchased and exchanged Argentine loans for equity in Aerolineas Argentinas for Iberia Airlines.
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