Research Director, International Economics

Expertise

• International Monetary System
• Global Financial Imbalances
• International Capital Flows
• International Financial Centres
• Ageing and Pensions

Projects

• Power and Rules in the Changing Economic Order
• Capital Flows, Investment and Sovereign Wealth Funds
• The Gulf Region: The Changing Face of Global Financial Power?
• The Euro and the Dollar within the International Monetary System
• Long-Dated Bonds: How to make the most of EU Demographics

Recent Publications

• From London to L'Aquila: Building a Bridge between the G20 and the G8, with Eric Helleiner, Chatham House Briefing Paper, June 2009
• 'International Economic Crisis: Rough Road to Reform', The World Today, December 2008
• The Gulf Region: A New Hub of Global Financial Power? co-ed with John Nugée, Chatham House Report, November 2008
• 'Financial Crisis: Panic, Blame and Crash Avoidance', The World Today, October 2008
• 'The Dollar from Bretton Woods Onwards: The Birth and Rebirth of the World's Hegemon', Cambridge Review of International Affairs, September 2008
• 'Is the Euro Ready for 'Prime Time'?', with Benjamin J Cohen, Chatham House Briefing Paper, July 2008
• 'New Power Centres and New Power Brokers: Are they Shaping a New Economic Order?', International Affairs, 84.3, 2008, pp. 484-98
• Asian Sovereign Wealth Funds in Europe: Much Ado about Nothing?, Thrust and Parry in the Global Game: Giants and the World Economy, Tokyo Club Foundation for Global Studies Conference
• 'Global Liquidity, Markets and Politics', in The Euromoney International Debt Capital Markets Handbook, Euromoney, London, 2007
• 'Capital Flows and Emerging Markets Economies: A Larger Playing Field?', IEP Briefing Paper 07/03, Chatham House, London, September 2007
• 'Shaping a New Global Economic Order', in Fraser, Maurice (ed) G8 Summit 2008: Growth and Responsibility, Agora Projects and Newsdesk Communications Ltd., London, 2007
• 'Market Imperfections, Ageing and the Role of Long-Dated Bonds', The Business Economist, 38.1, 2007, with V Rossi

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