Brazil: One Year after Lula
January 22, 2004
Speaker Biographies
Philip Gerson is Chief of the Atlantic Division in the International Monetary Fund's Western Hemisphere Department. He has served on the staff of the Fund for ten years, the last two and a half of which he has worked full-time on Brazil, participating in the negotiation of the last two Stand-By Arrangements, as well as in the recent extension of the current SBA. Prior to his involvement with Brazil, he worked in the Fund on various countries in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and throughout Latin America.
Lisa Schineller is director in the Sovereign Ratings Department of Standard and Poor’s, responsible for sovereign analysis in the Latin American Group. She is the primary analyst for Brazil, Ecuador, Uruguay, Panama and Trinidad & Tobago, and a secondary analyst for other countries in the region including Bolivia and Paraguay. Before joining Standard & Poor’s in 1999, Lisa Schineller worked at the International Finance Division at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC. Previously she was with the Corporate Affairs division of Exxon Company International. Lisa Schineller holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and a B.A. in Economics and Spanish from Wellesley College.
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, Dr. Lachman was deputy director in the Policy Development and Review Department at the International Monetary Fund.
Vincent Truglia is a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Sovereign Risk Unit of Moody's Investors Service. Prior to joining Moody's, Mr. Truglia 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 The Bank of America. Vincent Truglia completed his M.A. and ABD in International Economics at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He received his B.S.F.S. in International Affairs from the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington DC.
Mark Falcoff is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He has taught at the universities of Illinois, Oregon and California at Los Angeles, and has also been a fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Council on Foreign Relations. During the 99th Congress he served on the staff of the Senate committee on Foreign Relations. His recent books include Panama's Canal: What Happens When the United States Gives a Small Country What it Wants, A Culture of Its Own: Taking Latin America Seriously, and Cuba the Morning After, which was published by AEI in 2003. His AEI newsletter, Latin American Outlook is published monthly.
Riordan Roett is the Director of the Western Hemisphere Program at the Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. Since 1999, Dr. Roett has served as a consultant to the National Intelligence Council of the Central Intelligence Agency. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and a former national president of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). In 2000, the President of Brazil named Dr. Roett to the Order of Rio Branco with the rank of Commander. Among his publications are Post-Stabilization Politics in Latin America, Latin America in a Changing Global Environment, Exchange Rate Politics in Latin America, Mercosur: Regional Integration, World Markets, Brazil Under Cardoso, Brazil: Politics in a Patrimonial Society, Paraguay: The Personalist Legacy; The Mexican Peso Crisis: International Perspectives, and Political and Economic Liberalization in Mexico. He received his Ph.D. in political science at Columbia University.
David DeRosa is president of DeRosa Research and Trading, Inc. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Finance and Fellow of the International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management. He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago in finance and economics and his A.B. in economics from the College of the University of Chicago. David DeRosa is the author of In Defense of Free Capital Markets/ The Case Against A New International Financial Architecture (Bloomberg Press 2001), Options on Foreign Exchange, second edition (Wiley 2000), Managing Foreign Exchange Risk (Irwin 1996), and the editor of Currency Derivatives (Wiley 1998). He writes a twice-weekly column for Bloomberg News on topics of international finance and world politics.
Albert Fishlow is a professor of International and Public Affairs, as well as the Director of the Center for Brazilian Studies and Director of the Institute for Latin American Studies at Columbia University. He was Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council of Foreign Relations until June 30, 1999. He has also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs and was the first president of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA). In 1999, he was awarded the National Order of the Southern Cross by the government of Brazil. His recent publications include Latin America in the XXI century, Economic and Social Development into the XXI century, "Contending with Capital Flows: What is Different about the 1990s?", Capital Flows and Financial Crises, The United States and the Americas: a 21st century View, and Brazil, What Kind of Future.
Otaviano Canuto is Executive Director to Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Philippines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago with The World Bank and Affiliates. Previously, he was Executive Secretary with the Brazilian National Association of Centers of Graduate Studies of Economics (ANPEC), Brazil. He has also served as Director of International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance, Brazil. Otaviano Canuto is the winner of many prestigious awards internationally. With numerous publications in Portuguese, Spanish and English, some of his most recent work includes "Sovereign Risks and Risk Premia in Emerging Economies", "Macroeconomic Interdependence and Exchange Rate Regimes in Latin America", and "Economic Growth and Balance-of-Payments Constraint in Latin America".
John Williamson is senior research fellow with the International Institute of Economics in Washington D.C. Previously he served as Project Director for the UN High-Level Panel on Financing for Development. He was also Adviser to the International Monetary Fund and Economic Consultant to the UK Treasury. He is author or editor of numerous studies on international monetary and developing-world debt issues, including Delivering on Debt Relief: From IMF Gold to a New Aid Architecture, Exchange Rate Regimes for Emerging Markets: Reviving the Intermediate Option, The Crawling Band as an Exchange Rate Regime, What Role for Currency Boards?, Estimating Equilibrium Exchange Rates, The Political Economy of Policy Reform, Economic Consequences of Soviet Disintegration, Latin American Adjustment: How Much Has Happened?, and Targets and Indicators: A Blueprint for the International Coordination of Economic Policy.
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