MPA-EPM Spring Guest Lecture Series
This Spring MPA in Economic Policy Management program welcomes economists from the World Bank, Freddie Mac, IMF, IDB and the Brookings Institution for our annual Macro Guest Lecture Series.
Friday, February 2nd, 2018
Erik Feyen is a Lead Financial Economist in the Finance & Markets Global Practice of the World Bank Group. He heads the Practice’s global financial systems monitoring team and has led banking and capital market work for client countries in Asia, Latin-America, sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle-East. He previously worked as a management consultant. Erik holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Amsterdam and studied at Toulouse School of Economics and Delft University of Technology. Erik's work has appeared in professional and academic publications including the Journal of Financial Economics, World Bank Economic Review, and the Journal of Financial Perspectives.
Thursday, February 8th and Monday, February 12th, 2018
Alejandro Izquierdo is a Senior Advisor at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Previously, he worked as the Regional Economic Advisor for Mexico and Central America at the IDB, and was formerly a Principal Economist at its Research Department. Alejandro has been in charge of the IDB’s Annual Macroeconomic Report for four consecutive years.
Before his career at IDB, Alejandro worked at the World Bank in the Department of Economic Policy. . His current research interests include issues in international finance such as optimal levels of international reserves, the role of external factors on growth, the relevance of balance-sheet effects and financial integration in determining the likelihood of experiencing Sudden Stops in capital flows.
Friday. February 9th, 2018
Martin Čihák is an Advisor in the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department, where he is involved in the analysis of global capital markets. His work has also covered financial stability assessments and stress testing, financial deepening, financial inclusion, financial sector regulation, and the role of the state in finance. Mr. Čihák has covered these and other topics in a range of articles and publications as well as in numerous IMF and World Bank missions. Between 2011 and 2013, he was at the World Bank Group, leading the Global Financial Development Report. Before joining the IMF in 2000, Mr. Čihák was a chief analyst in a commercial bank, a university lecturer, and a government advisor. He has a PhD in economics and MAs in both economics and law.
Thursday, February 15th and Monday, February 19th, 2018
Eduardo Cavallo is a Lead Economist at the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington DC. Prior to joining the IDB, Eduardo was a Vice-President and Senior Latin American Economist for Goldman Sachs in New York. Eduardo had already worked at the IDB as a Research Economist between 2006 and 2010. Before that he served as a research fellow at the Center for International Development (CID), a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and a member of the faculty at the Kennedy School of Government's Summer Program. In Argentina he co-founded Fundación Grupo Innova.
Thursday, April 5th, 2018
Ricardo López Murphy, is the former Economy Minister of Argentina as well as an economist, professor and politician. His areas of expertise include public finances and Argentine macroeconomics and its comparison with the rest of the world. López Murphy’s career includes being an advisor for financial institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, the CEPAL and that IADB. He also was Chief Economist at the FIEL economic think-tank in Argentina. A native of Argentina, López Murphy holds a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Chicago.
Thursday, April 12th, 2018
Sergio Schmukler is Lead Economist at the World Bank’s Development Research Group. His research area is international finance and international financial markets and institutions. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997, when he joined the World Bank's Young Economist and Young Professionals Programs. He currently teaches financial development at Columbia University. He is a member of the Money and Finance Research (Mo.Fi.R) group and Treasurer of LACEA, the Latin America and Caribbean Economic Association (since 2004).
Friday, April 13th, 2018
Michael Hutchins is the executive vice president of Freddie Mac’s Investments & Capital Markets division. In this position, Hutchins is responsible for managing all of Freddie Mac's liquidity, financing, and interest rate hedging activities as well as managing Freddie Mac's portfolio of single family investments. He is a member of the company's senior operating committee and reports directly to CEO Don Layton.
Thursday, April 27th, 2018
Ernesto Talvi is a non-resident senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution and Director of the Brookings Global-CERES Economic and Social Policy in the Latin America Initiative. His work focuses on emerging markets macroeconomics with special emphasis on Latin America, stabilization programs, fiscal policy, capital flows and financial crises. Dr. Talvi has extensive expertise in international economics and in public policy making. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago.
The mid-career MPA in Economic Policy Management program (MPA-EPM) is a 12-month MPA program at SIPA and is geared towards professionals with significant working experience within economic policymaking, financial, consulting, political science, engineering and energy backgrounds.
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SIPA's MPA in Economic Policy Management (MPA-EPM) was formerly named the Program in Economic Policy Management (PEPM).