Professor of Applied Economics and Co-Director of the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise at The Johns Hopkins University; Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute; Distinguished Professor at the Universitas Pelita Harapan in Jakarta, Indonesia; Senior ...more

Professor of Applied Economics and Co-Director of the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise at The Johns Hopkins University; Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute; Distinguished Professor at the Universitas Pelita Harapan in Jakarta, Indonesia; Senior Advisor at the Renmin University of China’s International Monetary Research Institute in Beijing; Special Counselor to the Center for Financial Stability in New York; member of the National Bank of Kuwait’s International Advisory Board; member of the Financial Advisory Council of the United Arab Emirates; contributing editor at Globe Asia magazine. Previously, I taught economics at the Colorado School of Mines and the University of California at Berkeley. I served as a Senior Economist on President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers in 1981-82; as a Senior Advisor to the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress in 1984-86; as a State Counselor to the Republic of Lithuania in 1994-1996 and to the Republic of Montenegro in 1999-2003; and as an Advisor to the Presidents of Bulgaria in 1997-2002, Venezuela in 1995-96 and Indonesia in 1998. I helped to establish new currency regimes in Argentina, Estonia, Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ecuador, Lithuania and Montenegro. I advised the governments of many other countries, including Albania, Kazakhstan and Yugoslavia. Currently serve as Chairman of the Richmond Group Fund Co., Ltd., a global macro hedge fund located in Richmond, Virginia. I am Chairman Emeritus of the Friedberg Mercantile Group, Inc. in Toronto. During the 1990s, I served as President of Toronto Trust Argentina in Buenos Aires, the world’s best-performing emerging market mutual fund in 1995.less