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MICHAEL K. GAVIN Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs Michael Gavin is a managing director and head of asset allocation research for the Americas at Barclays Capital, based in New York. 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, 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. As an associate professor of economics at Columbia University, he founded a new master’s program for mid-career policymakers from emerging markets. Gavin received a PhD in economics from MIT. TAKATOSHI ITO Professor of International and Public Affairs Takatoshi Ito joined the faculty of SIPA as a professor of international and public affairs in January 2015. An internationally renowned economist, Ito is an expert on international finance, macroeconomics, and the Japanese economy who served from 2006 to 2008 as a member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy. He also held senior positions in the Japanese Ministry of Finance and at the International Monetary Fund. Ito served as dean of the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Public Policy for the past two years and as professor at Japan’s National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. He has served as a visiting professor at both Columbia and Harvard and taught at other institutions. He earned his PhD in economics at Harvard University. Ito has had distinguished academic and research appointments such as president of the Japanese Economic Association in 2004; fellow of the Econometric Society since 1992; research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1985; and faculty fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research since 2006. He was editor-in-chief of Journal of the Japanese and International Economies and is co-editor of Asian Economic Policy Review. In an unusual move for a Japanese academic, Ito was also appointed in the official sectors, as senior adviser in the Research Department, International Monetary Fund (1994–97) and as deputy vice minister for international affairs at the Ministry of Finance, Japan (1999–2001). He is an author of many books including The Japanese Economy (MIT Press, 1992), The Political Economy of the Japanese Monetary Policy (1997) and Financial Policy and Central Banking in Japan, with T. Cargill and M. Hutchison, (MIT Press, 2000), An Independent and Accountable IMF, with J. De Gregorio, B. Eichengreen, and C. Wyplosz (1999). He is also the author of more than 130 academic (refereed) journal articles in journals such as Econometrica, American Economic Review, and Journal of Monetary Economics and chapters in books on international finance, monetary policy, and the Japanese economy. His research interests include capital flows and currency crises, microstructures of foreign exchange rates, and inflation targeting. He was awarded the National Medal with Purple Ribbon in June 2011 for his excellent academic achievement. 10
GEOFFREY JEHLE Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs Geoffrey A. Jehle began teaching in SIPA's MPA in Economic Policy Management (MPA-EPM) program in 2004. His early work on the theory of bank regulation received the 1986 Iddo Sarnat Award from the European Finance Association and the Journal of Banking and Finance. Since then his research and writing have ranged widely over microeconomics. In addition to a popular graduate-level text, Advanced Microeconomic Theory, 3e (Pearson 2011), written with coauthor Philip J. Reny of the University of Chicago, he has published articles on international trade theory, optimal labor contracts, and income inequality. Jehle received his PhD from Princeton University in 1983 and is professor of economics at Vassar College. He has taught at Princeton University, Yale University, the European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD), and the Lahore University of Management Science (LUMS). In 2001 he served as Fulbright senior scholar at the Universiti Sains Malaysia and, in 2013, as Fulbright senior scholar at the Foreign Trade University of Vietnam. ARVID LUKAUSKAS Executive Director, Picker Center for Executive Education MPA in Economic Policy Management Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs Arvid Lukauskas is the executive director of the Picker Center for Executive Education and the MPA in Economic Policy Management (MPA-EPM) program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He also directs SIPA’s summer program offered in collaboration with the School of Continuing Education. Lukauskas teaches and conducts research on international and comparative political economy, with a focus on the political economy of finance and trade policy. His books are the Handbook of Trade Policy for Development, edited with R. Stern and G. Zanini (Oxford University Press, 2013); The Political Economy of the East Asian Crisis and its Aftermath, edited with F. Rivera- Batíz (Edward Elgar, 2001); and Regulating Finance: The Political Economy of Spanish Financial Policy from Franco to Democracy (University of Michigan, 1997). His articles have appeared in various scholarly journals, including Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Japanese Journal of Political Science and Review of International Political Economy. He is currently working on a book-length project examining the links between economic and social development in East Asia. Through the Picker Center, Lukauskas has helped develop or direct several major executive training programs in Brazil, Chile, China, Egypt, Republic of Georgia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, and Thailand, as well as for UNDP and the World Bank. He was the principal investigator for a four-year USAID grant, in conjunction with the East-West Management Institute, to develop educational capacity in the Republic of Georgia. He has served as a consultant to UNDP and the World Bank Institute. Lukauskas received a BA from University of Wisconsin, Madison, an MPA from University of Oklahoma, and his PhD from University of Pennsylvania. 11
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