Skylar Brooks is a PhD candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo. His research focuses on the global politics of money and finance, with particular emphasis on the international monetary system and sovereign debt governance.
Sergio Chodos, currently executive director for the Southern Cone countries at the International Monetary Fund. Previously, he held positions in Argentina, including secretary of finance, board member of the Central Bank of Argentina, and vice superintendent of Financial Entities. He holds a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires and an LLM from Columbia University. He was admitted to practice in Buenos Aires and in New York.
Richard A. Conn Jr. serves as managing partner of Eurasia Advisors LLC (
www.eurasiadvisors.com), an advisory firm specializing in problem solving and deal making in Russia and other CIS nations, and as managing partner of Innovate Partners LLC (
www.innovatepartners.com), a private investment fund. He delivered the keynote address before the UN General Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on Sovereign Debt Restructuring in April 2015.
Timothy B. DeSieno is a New York–based partner in the global financial restructuring practice of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. DeSieno advises institutional investors in protecting and restructuring their investments globally in cases of economic, political, financial, or other stress. He frequently represents creditors of sovereign states in connection with debt restructurings.
Anna Gelpern is a law professor at Georgetown and a fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. She has published many articles on financial integration and debt and has coauthored a law textbook on international finance. Earlier he practiced law in New York and served in legal and policy positions at the U.S. Treasury.
Richard Gitlin is chair of Gitlin & Company, LLC and a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). For many years he has been actively involved in efforts to improve systems for both sovereign and corporate cross-border debt restructurings.
Martin Guzman is a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University GSB (Department of Economics and Finance), an associate professor at the University of Buenos Aires, and a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. He is a cochair of Columbia University IPD Taskforce on Debt Restructuring and Sovereign Bankruptcy, and a member of the Institute for New Economic Thinking Group on Macroeconomic Externalities. He is also the editor of the
Journal of Globalization and Development.
James A. Haley is an adjunct professor at McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. He previously served as executive director for Canada at the Inter-American Development Bank and led the Global Economy program at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). He has held a number of senior positions in the Canadian Treasury and was research director at the International Department of the Bank of Canada. He also served on the staff of the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund and has lectured on international finance at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University.
Ben Heller is a fund manager at Hutchin Hill.
Barry Herman. After almost thirty years of service, Dr. Herman retired from the United Nations Secretariat in December 2005 and now teaches part-time in the Julien J. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs in the Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy of The New School, New York.
Brett House is chief economist at Alignvest Investment Management in Toronto, senior fellow at the Jeanne Sauvé Foundation, and visiting scholar at Massey College in the University of Toronto. Previously, he worked on sovereign debt–related issues as senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), global strategist at New York–based hedge fund Woodbine Capital Advisors, principal advisor in the executive office of the United Nations’ Secretary-General, and economist at the International Monetary Fund.
Robert Howse is Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law at NYU Law School. He was a member of the UNCTAD Working Group on Sovereign Debt Workouts and is the author of the UNCTAD study “The Concept of Odious Debt in Public International Law,” among many other works.
Jürgen Kaiser is the coordinator of erlassjahr.de (Jubilee Germany). Born in 1954, he studied geography and regional planning in Berlin and Karlsruhe; worked for ten years in development education for the Protestant Churches in Germany, working for the German debt crisis network from 1995 to 1997, then cofounder of Jubilee Germany; in 2005/6 debt relief and financial flows adviser for UNDP (New York).
Domenico Lombardi is director of the Global Economy Program at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Canada. He serves on the advisory boards of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Bretton Woods Committee in Washington. Earlier in his career, Lombardi was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and had positions on the executive boards of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. He has an undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Bocconi University, Milan, and a PhD in economics from Oxford University (Nuffield College). More information is available at
www.domenicolombardi.org.
José Antonio Ocampo is professor at the School of International and Public Affairs and co-president of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, and chair of the UN Committee for Development Policy. He hasbeen UN under-secretary-general for economic and social affairs, executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and minister of finance, minister of agriculture, and director of the National Planning Office of Colombia.
Kunibert Raffer is associate professor in the Department of Economics, University of Vienna, and honorary professor at the Universidad Nacional de Rio Negro (Argentina). He serves as a member of the Study Group on Sovereign Insolvency of the International Law Association.
Brad Setser is the deputy assistant secretary for international economic analysis at the U.S. Treasury.
Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is also the cochair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, the chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute and cofounder and co-president of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue. A recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979), he is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and a former member and chairman of the (U.S. president’s) Council of Economic Advisers.
Marilou Uy is director of the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development (G-24). Previously, Uy worked at the World Bank, where she was director of Financial and Private Sector Development in various regional departments.
Yanis Varoufakis is professor of economic theory at the University of Athens and a former finance minister who led his government’s negotiations on debt relief with the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission, and the European Central Bank. His latest book is entitled. And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe’s Crisis, America’s Economic Future (New York: Nation Books).
Shichao Zhou is research associate at the G-24 Secretariat. Previously, he worked on country economic analysis as an intern at the Institute of International Finance. Mr. Zhou graduated from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.