Speaker Biographies
Anne Krueger served as first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from September 1, 2001, to August 31, 2006. She recently joined the economics faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies as a professor of international economics. Before serving at the IMF, 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. A recipient of a number of economic prizes and awards, she has published extensively on policy reform in developing countries, the role of multilateral institutions in the international economy, and the political economy of trade policy. Recent books edited or co-edited by Ms. Krueger include Reforming India’s Economic, Financial and Fiscal Policies (2003), Latin American Macroeconomic Reform: The Second Stage (2003), Economic Policy Reform and the Indian Economy (2003), A New Approach to Sovereign Debt Restructuring (2002), Economic Policy Reform: The Second Stage (2000), and The WTO as an International Organization (2000).
Desmond Lachman is a resident fellow 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, he 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.
John H. Makin is a resident scholar at AEI and a principal at Caxton Associates, L.L.C., in New York City, a major investor in foreign exchange, commodity, and currency markets. Before joining both AEI and Caxton, Mr. Makin was director of the Institute for Economic Research and professor of economics at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve System, the International Monetary Fund, and the Bank of Japan. He was a member of the panel of economic advisers of the Congressional Budget Office. From 1988 to 1992, Mr. Makin served as chairman of the Japan-United States Friendship Commission, which administers $4.5 million in research grants on Japanese-U.S. policy research and cultural exchange. He testifies frequently before both houses of Congress on issues such as international competitiveness, trade, tax, and budget policy. Mr. Makin is coauthor of Debt and Taxes: How America Got into Its Budget Mess and What to Do about It (1994) and has written or edited more than a dozen books on a wide range of economic subjects.
Kenneth S. Rogoff served as economic counsellor and director of the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from August 2001 to September 2003. He is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and a professor of economics at Harvard University, and was previously the Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of International Affairs at Princeton University. Early in his career, Rogoff served as an economist at the IMF and also at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Science as well as the Econometric Society, and a former Guggenheim Fellow. Mr. Rogoff has published extensively on policy issues in international finance, including exchange rates, international debt issues, and international monetary policy. He is coauthor of the 1996 graduate text/treatise Foundations of International Macroeconomics.
Brad Setser is a research associate at the Global Economic Governance Programme at University College, Oxford, and a senior economist at Roubini Global Economics. He was an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He served in the U.S. Treasury from 1997 to 2001, where he worked extensively on the reform of the international financial architecture, sovereign debt restructurings, and U.S. policy toward the IMF. He was the acting director of the U.S. Treasury’s Office of International Monetary and Financial Policy.
Edwin M. Truman has been a senior fellow at the Peterson International Institute for Economics since 2001. He served as assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury for International Affairs from December 1998 to January 2001. He directed the Division of International Finance of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1977 to 1998. From 1983 to 1998, he was one of three economists on the staff of the Federal Open Market Committee. 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 (1999–2000), the G-22 Working Party on Transparency and Accountability (1998), the G-10–sponsored Working Party on Financial Stability in Emerging Market Economies (1996–97), the G-10 Working Group on the Resolution of Sovereign Liquidity Crises (1995–96), and the G-7 Working Group on Exchange Market Intervention (1982–83). He has published on international monetary economics, international debt problems, economic development, and European economic integration. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of Reforming the IMF for the 21st Century (2006), A Strategy for IMF Reform (2006), Chasing Dirty Money: The Fight against Money Laundering (2004), and Inflation Targeting in the World Economy (2003).
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