Albert Fishlow is Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and Director of the Center for the Study of Brazil at Columbia since July 2000. He was Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council of Foreign Relations until June 30, 1999. Previously Dr. Fishlow had been Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and Dean of International and Area Studies. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Management, and Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for International & Area Studies at Yale University. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from 1975 to 1976, and has been a member of a number of public groups relating to Latin America. In 1999, he was awarded the National Order of the Southern Cross by the government of Brazil.

Dr. Fishlow's published research has addressed issues in economic history, Brazilian and Latin American development strategy, as well as economic relations between industrialized and developing countries. Recent publications include "Latin America in the XXI century," in Louis Emmerij, (ed.), Economic and Social Development into the XXI century; (Inter-American Development Bank, 1997), "Contending with Capital Flows: What is Different about the 1990s?" with Barry Eichengreen in Miles Kahler, (ed.), Capital Flows and Financial Crises (Ithaca, NY 1998), and The United States and the Americas: a 21st century View with James Jones (New York, 1999).