Congratulations to Camila Jordan MPA-DP ’18, who was recently named as one of the 500 Most Influential People in Latin America by Bloomberg Linea. She currently serves as executive director of Teto Brasil, a nonprofit organization that works to improve housing and living conditions.

The 25-member committee will advise Secretary Janet Yellen and Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo on efforts to advance racial equity in the economy, and more.

Noah Kaufman, a climate economist at SIPA's Center on Global Energy Policy, will serve as a committee member for the newly established group.  

Rajan Menon co-authors a piece on the unpredictability of what a post-Putin Russia would look like. 

Economist Arvind Panagariya comments on possible actions the Reserve Bank of India can take to stem the rupee slide, "The origins of the pressure on the rupee today are to be traced not in higher inflation rates at home but in the rising interest rates in the US in the face of the high degree of international mobility of financial capital." 

In a recent visit to the Raj Center by Dr. S. Jaishankar, India's external affairs minister, spoke on a wide range of topics. His remarks drew a lot of interest from Indian media.

Takatoshi Ito writes about The US Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hike, the global landscape of monetary tightening, and the need for governments not to politicize these issues.