Speaker biographies
Megan Davy is a research assistant in foreign and defense policy studies at AEI. Her research areas include demography, immigration, and trade and economic development in Latin America.
Desmond Lachman joined AEI as a resident fellow after serving as a managing director and chief emerging market economic strategist at Salomon Smith Barney. He was previously deputy director in the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Policy and Review Department and was active in staff formulation of IMF policies toward emerging markets in general and Latin America in particular. Mr. Lachman researches topics like the U.S. housing market bubble, the dollar crisis, challenges to the Federal Reserve, and IMF and World Bank reform.
Nancy Lee is a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development, where she is working on addressing constraints to growth and income convergence in the Western Hemisphere through regional integration. Ms. Lee joined the Center for Global Development from the U.S. Treasury Department, where she served most recently as deputy assistant secretary for Europe, Eurasia, and the Western Hemisphere, overseeing the Treasury’s engagement with eighty-six countries. A focus of her recent work at Treasury was expanding access to finance to small businesses and catalyzing more private finance for infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean. From 1997 to 1999, she was the Treasury’s director for Central and Eastern Europe. Previously, she was director of the office for the Middle East and Central Asia and deputy director of the office for Asian and Near Eastern nations, where she helped launch the APEC finance ministers’ process. Also at the Treasury, Ms. Lee served in the Office of International Monetary Policy, covering the G7 finance ministers’ process and IMF issues, and in the Office of International Trade Policy, focusing on U.S. trade policy issues with developing countries. She was a Treasury negotiator in the Uruguay Round trade negotiations and in the early part of the North American Free Trade Agreement negotiations. In 2002, Ms. Lee became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and in 2001, she was a recipient of the Meritorious Executive Presidential Rank Award.
Roger F. Noriega is a visiting fellow at AEI, coordinating the Institute’s program on Western Hemisphere issues. Twice appointed by President George W. Bush (and confirmed by the U.S. Senate) and with a ten-year career on Capitol Hill, Ambassador Noriega’s breadth of experience offers strategic vision and practical insight on the Americas. As assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, he managed a 3,000-person team of professionals in Washington, D.C., and fifty diplomatic posts to design and implement political and economic strategies in Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. As U.S. permanent representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Noriega coordinated complex and sensitive multilateral diplomacy in a thirty-four-member international organization to bolster OAS efforts to promote trade, fight illicit drugs, and defend democracy. Ambassador Noriega has held various other positions, including senior policy adviser with the U.S. mission to the OAS; many program management and public affairs positions with the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Department of State; press secretary and foreign policy adviser for former representative Robert Whittaker (R-Kans.); and research assistant for the secretary of state of Kansas.
Anoop Singh is director of the Western Hemisphere department of the IMF, where he has also served as director of special operations in the Office of the Managing Director; deputy director, Asia and Pacific Department; senior advisor, Policy Development and Review Department, assistant director, European Department; and IMF resident representative in Sri Lanka. His additional work experience includes: special advisor to the governor of the Reserve Bank of India, senior economic advisor to the vice president of the World Bank for, Asia, and lecturer in economics at Bombay University. Mr. Singh has worked and written on macroeconomic, surveillance, and crisis management issues, helping design IMF-supported programs in emerging-market, transitional, and developing countries in South and Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. Mr. Singh has coauthored or coedited Sustaining Latin America’s Resurgence: Some Historical Perspectives (IMF, 2006), Stabilization and Reform in Latin America: A Macroeconomic Perspective on the Experience Since the 1990s (IMF, 2005), Australia: Benefiting from Economic Reform (IMF, 1998), and Macroeconomic Issues Facing ASEAN Countries (IMF, 1997).
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