SIPA: School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University

Juan Pablo Jiménez

Juan Pablo Jiménez has been a faculty member at Columbia University since 2002, teaching at the School of International and Public Affairs. He has taught at University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and Social Science at Latin America School (FLACSO).  Juan Pablo Jiménez is an economic affairs officer at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC-UN). Their website is www.eclac.org. He previously worked in the Ministry of Economy and National Congress of Argentina and visited the Department of Fiscal Affairs of the International Monetary Fund as a visiting scholar. He has authored several articles and papers related with aspects of economic development, macro fiscal sustainability, public social policies, and decentralization in Latin America. He has been a consultant to numerous governmental organizations including the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, UNICEF, Inter American Development Bank, and the United Nations Development Program.

Professor Jiménez holds an MA in international affairs from Columbia University and an MA in economics from the Universidad Di Tella.

Ronald Findlay

Ronald Findlay was born in Rangoon, Burma and educated at St. John’s Diocesan Boys High School and Rangoon University (BA, 1954), where he was a Tutor in Economics from 1954-57 before going to MIT on a Ford Foundation Fellowship (Ph.D, 1960). After returning to Burma he was a Lecturer and then Research Professor of Economics in Rangoon University. He came to the US in 1969 to teach at Columbia University, where he is the Ragnar Nurkse Professor of Economics. He is the author of "Trade and Specialization" (Penguin 1970); "International Trade and Development Theory" (Columbia University Press, 1973); "Trade, Development and Political Economy: Selected Essays of Ronald Findlay" (Edward Elgar, 1993); "Factor Proportions, Trade and Growt"h (MIT Press, 1995), based on the Ohlin Lectures delivered in Stockholm in 1991; and most recently (with Kevin H.O’Rourke) of "Power and Plenty: Trade, War and the World Economy in the Second Millennium" (Princeton University Press, 2007).

Michael Connolly

Michael Connolly is a professor of Economics at the University of Miami, as well as Professor of Finance, Hunan University whose areas of specialty include international finance, trade and development, as well as currency boards and exchange speculation. He looks at the effect of currency boards and/or dollarization on risk premia in emerging markets. He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley (Phi Beta Kappa),
June, 1964; an M.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago, June 1967; and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago, June 1969. He was recently quoted in a Miami Herald story (Nov. 25, 2008) about whether the government should provide funding to Florida schools in a bailout similar to the Wall Street rescue plans.

Selected Publications

• “A Fisherian Approach to Trade, Capital Movements and Tariffs,” American Economic Review (coauthor with Stephen A. Ross)
• “Exchange Market Pressure in Brazil,” American Economic Review (coauthor with José Dantas da Silvéira)
• “Testing the Monetary Approach to Devaluation in Developing Countries,” Journal of Political Economy (coauthor with Dean Taylor)
• “Trade in Public Goods: A Diagrammatical Analysis,” Quarterly Journal of Economics

Richard H. Clarida

Richard H. Clarida is the C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Columbia University where he has taught since 1988. From February 2002 until May 2003, Clarida served as the Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury for Economic Policy, a position that required confirmation by the US Senate. In that position, he served as chief economic advisor to the Treasury Secretary, and advising him on a wide range economic policy issues, including the U.S. and global economic prospects, international capital flows, corporate governance, and the maturity structure of U.S. debt. In May 2003 Treasury Secretary John Snow presented Clarida with The Treasury Medal in recognition for his record of outstanding service to the Treasury Department.

Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz

Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz is a Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, and a Professor of International and Public Affairs (affiliate) at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia. He is the former Director of the Program in Economic Policy Management (SIPA, 1996-2002), Director of the Latino Studies Program (Columbia College, 1997-1999), and Director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education (Teachers College, 1991-1995). He also held a joint faculty appointment at Columbia’s Economics Department between 1996 and 2002. He is currently affiliated with the Columbia Population Research Center, and the Institute of Latin American Studies. Before joining Columbia's faculty, Dr. Rivera-Batiz held teaching or research appointments at the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University in New Brunswick, the University of Puerto Rico, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He received his Bachelor's degree with Distinction in All Subjects from Cornell University in 1975 and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979.

His publications in international and development economics include the textbook, International Finance and Open Economy Macroeconomics (Prentice Hall, with L. Rivera-Batiz) whose second edition was released in 1994 (a third edition is in preparation), the co-edited book, The Political Economy of the East Asian Crisis (Edward Elgar Publishers Ltd., Cheltenham, U.K., 2001, with A. Lukauskas), as well as a Special edited issue of the Review of Development Economics on "Democracy, Participation and Economic Development (2002, with Luis Rivera-Batiz).

William Easterly

William Easterly is Professor of Economics at New York University and co-director of the NYU Development Research Institute, which won the 2009 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge in Development Cooperation Award. He is the author of two books: The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Harm and So Little Good (2006) and The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (2001). The former won the FA Hayek Award from the Manhattan Institute.  He has also published more than 60 peer-reviewed academic articles. He was named in 2008 and 2009 among the Top 100 Global Public Intellectuals by Foreign Policy Magazine, and ranks among the top 100 most cited academic economists worldwide. His writings have appeared or been covered in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, CNN, PBS, ABC, and other media outlets. He was co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics and wrote and directed the Aid Watch blog. He is Research Associate of NBER, senior fellow BREAD and nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings. He is also the 11th most famous native of Bowling Green, Ohio.

Guillermo Calvo

Guillermo Calvo is Professor of Economics, International and Public Affairs, and Director of the Program in Economic Policy Management (PEPM) at Columbia University since January 2007. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He is the former Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank (2001-2006), President of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, LACEA, 2000-2001, and President of the International Economic Association, IEA, 2005-2008. He graduated with a Ph.D. from Yale in 1974.

He was professor of economics at Columbia University (1973-1986), the University of Pennsylvania (1986-1989), and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland (1993-2006). He was Senior Advisor in the Research Department of the IMF (1988-1993), and afterwards advised several governments in Latin America and Eastern Europe.

Honors include: Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for 1980-1981, King Juan Carlos Prize in Economics in 2000, LACEA 2006 Carlos Diaz-Alejandro Prize; and fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Economic Sciences (Argentina). On April 15-16, 2004, the Research Department of the IMF sponsored a conference in his honor.

He has testified before the U.S. Congress on dollarization and the 1994 Mexican crisis.

His main field of expertise is macroeconomics of Emerging Market and Transition Economies. His recent work has dealt extensively with capital flows and balance-of-payments crises in Emerging Market Economies. He has published several books and more than 100 articles in leading economic journals. His latest book “Emerging Capital Markets in Turmoil: Bad Luck or Bad Policy?” was published in 2005 by MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Arvid Lukauskas

Arvid Lukauskas teaches and conducts research on international and comparative political economy, with a focus on the political economy of finance and trade policy.
Through the Picker Center for Executive Education, Lukauskas has helped develop or direct major executive training programs in Brazil, Chile, China, Egypt, Georgia, Hong Kong, Mexico, Singapore, and Thailand, and for the United Nations Development Programme.
His publications include:

• The Political Economy of the East Asian Crisis and its Aftermath, edited with F. Rivera-Batiz (Edward Elgar 2001)
• Regulating Finance: The Political Economy of Spanish Financial Policy from Franco to Democracy (University of Michigan 1997)
• "The Political Economy of Financial Restriction: The Case of Spain," in Comparative Politics
• "Managing Mobile Capital," in Review of International Political Economy
• "Explaining Styles of Financial Market Opening in Chile, Mexico, South Korea, and Turkey," with S. Minushkin in International Studies Quarterly
• "Financial Restriction and the Developmental State in East Asia," in Comparative Political Studies, and “The Non-Linear Process of Institutional Change: The Bank of Japan Reform and its Aftermath” with Yumiko Shimabukuro in Japanese Journal of Political Science.

Lukauskas holds a BA from University of Wisconsin, Madison, an MPA from University of Oklahoma, and a PhD from University of Pennsylvania.

Michael Gavin

Michael Gavin is a Managing Director and International Macro Strategist at Barclays Capital, based in New York.
Mr. Gavin joined Barclays Capital in 2009 as Head of Global Emerging Markets Strategy. 

Previously, he served as an Emerging Markets Economist at Citadel Investment Group, responsible for economic and market analysis underlying the emerging market desk’s currency, local rates, external debt, and equity markets investments. Before joining Citadel, Mr. Gavin was a Managing Director at UBS where he served as Head of Latin American Research. Prior to joining UBS, he was an economist at the Inter-American Development Bank. He has also worked at the Federal Reserve Bank and been a visiting researcher and consultant at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. 

Mr. Gavin works with G10 and Emerging Markets economists and strategists to identify trends in international asset flows and valuation, economic policy and currency movements, highlighting investment opportunities and implications for global asset allocation.

Mr. Gavin is also accomplished in academia; as an Associate Professor of Economics at Columbia University, he founded a new master’s programme for mid-career policymakers from emerging markets.

Mr. Gavin received a PhD in economics from MIT.

Dani Rodrik

Dani Rodrik is the Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He has published widely in the areas of international economics, economic development, and political economy.

Professor Rodrik was awarded the inaugural Albert O. Hirschman Prize of the Social Science Research Council in 2007. He has also received the Leontief Award for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought, honorary doctorates from the University of Antwerp and Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, and research grants from the Carnegie Corporation, Ford Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation. He is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), Center for Global Development, and Council on Foreign Relations.

Professor Rodrik's articles have been published in the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, and other academic journals. His 1997 book Has Globalization Gone Too Far? was called "one of the most important economics books of the decade" in Business Week. He is also the author of One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth (Princeton 2007) and of The New Global Economy and Developing Countries: Making Openness Work (Overseas Development Council, Washington DC, 1999). His most recent book The Globalization Paradox was published by Norton in 2011.

Professor Rodrik is a past editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics. He has given, among others, the Bharat Ram Memorial Seminar in Delhi (2011), the Merih Celasun Memorial Lecture in Ankara (2010), the Sir Arthur Lewis Distinguished Lecture at the University of the West Indies, Barbados (2009), the Yan Fu Memorial Lecture in Beijing (2006), the WIDER Annual Lecture (2004), the Gaston Eyskens Lectures (2002), the Carlos F. Diaz Alejandro Lecture at the Latin American meeting of the Econometric Society (2001), the Alfred Marshall Lecture of the European Economic Association (1996), and the Raul Prebisch Lecture of UNCTAD (1997). His most recent research is concerned with the determinants of economics growth and the consequences of international economic integration.

Professor Rodrik holds a Ph.D. in economics and an MPA from Princeton University, and an A.B. (summa cum laude) from Harvard College.