Expertise
Political economy of development; Economic adjustment and market reform; Post-socialist transition; Business environment in developing countries
- Language Fluency:
- Czech
- Spanish
Background
Current Positions
Associate Professor of International Development, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Past Positions
Assistant Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Senior Private Sector Development Specialist, Development Economics Group, the World Bank; Private Sector Development Specialist, Private Sector Development Department, the World Bank; Masaryk Fellow, Charles University (Prague); Analyst, Behavioral Sciences Department, CACI-Federal
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1996; M.A., Harvard University, 1992; B.A., University of California, Irvine, 1988
"Understandably, recent attention on the G-20 has mainly focused on stabilizing financial markets and restoring growth. But the potential for the current global economic retrenchment to cause political chaos should be of equal concern, even if poorly understood, and deserves attention."