Expertise
Competitiveness; Currencies (dollar and yuan); U.S. deficit; Foreign assistance; Foreign investment; Global poverty; Offshoring;Trade
Background
Past Positions
Deputy National Economic Adviser and Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economics (Clinton Administration); Personal Representative (Sherpa) of the President to the G7/8; Associate Professor of Applied Economics, MIT Sloan School (1990-5); Management Consultant, McKinsey and Co. (1982-5)
Education
Ph.D. (1989), M.A. (1989), Harvard University; B.A., Wesleyan University, 1983
"We should use this moment of rising global food shortages to improve not just the quantity but the quality of our foreign aid by making the reforms that are long overdue."