October 15, 2003
Speaker Biographies
Harvey Zhaohui Chen is founder and chairman of the First Light Academy and also CEO-China Operations of First Light’s parent company, Global EduTech Management Group. He is an adviser and contributor to Oxford Analytica, founder and director of Institute of Contemporary Finance at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, founder and codirector of Center for the New Economy at Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China), fellow of National Center of Economic Research at Tsinghua University, managing editor of the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, and expert adviser to the Shanghai government’s Leading Group on Asset Restructuring of Listed Companies. He is also an overseas observer to the China People’s Political Consultative Conference. Mr. Chen started his career as a naval architect in a large state enterprise in China, followed by two years of economic research work with the municipal government of Guangzhou. He worked at the London School of Economics for three years, holding the Jean Monnet Lectureship in the Economics of the EU from 1992 to1995. He then worked for the International Monetary Fund as an economist and as vice president and currency analyst at JP Morgan Chase in New York.
Yusuke Horiguchi is first deputy managing director and chief economist at the Institute of International Finance (IIF). Before joining the IIF, Mr. Horiguchi spent more than twenty years with the International Monetary Fund, where he became director of the Asia-Pacific Department in February 2000. During this time, he headed missions to the United States, Canada, and Japan, among the G-7 countries, as well as China, Russia, Korea, Israel, and many other emerging market economies. Mr. Horiguchi has also taught at Texas A&M and Rice Universities and has been a consultant and staff economist for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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, Mr. Lachman was deputy director in the Policy Development and Review Department at the International Monetary Fund.
Nicholas R. Lardy is a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C. Mr. Lardy came to IIE in March 2003 from the Brookings Institution, where he was a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program from 1995 until 2003 and served as interim director of Foreign Policy Studies in 2001. Before his work at Brookings, Mr. Lardy 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 Asia and the Chinese economy.
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, the Bank of Japan, and numerous leading corporations. 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.
Allan H. Meltzer is a visiting scholar at AEI and the Allan H. Meltzer University Professor of Political Economy at Carnegie Mellon University. He served as the honorary adviser to the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies of the Bank of Japan from 1986 to 2002. Mr. Meltzer was a member of the President’s Economic Policy Advisory Board during the Reagan administration. He has been an acting member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and a consultant to the U.S. Treasury and to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. In 1999 and 2000, he served as the chairman of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, which was appointed by Congress to review the role of these institutions. The author of several books and numerous papers on economic theory and policy, Mr. Meltzer is also a founder of the Shadow Open Market Committee. In 2002, he was elected a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association. He received the first annual Irving Kristol Award and delivered the Irving Kristol Lecture at AEI’s annual dinner in February 2003.
Randal Keith Quarles was sworn in as the Treasury Department’s assistant secretary for international affairs in April 2002. From August 2001 through March 2002, Mr. Quarles served as the U.S. executive director at the International Monetary Fund. His current appointment as assistant secretary is Quarles’s second role at the Treasury Department. He served as special assistant to the secretary for banking legislation from 1991 to 1992 and as deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for financial institutions policy from 1992 to 1993 in the George H.W. Bush Administration.. In the private sector, Mr. Quarles was co-head of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Financial Institutions Group. He has significant experience in advising international banks on cross-border and cross-industry financial regulatory matters. Mr. Quarles has spoken and published on a variety of issues in international finance, and he is a coauthor of Foreign Bank Acquisitions of U.S. Banking Institutions. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the Bar Association of the City of New York and is included in Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Banking Lawyers.
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