Leslie Lipschitz

Leslie Lipschitz is an economist who has published widely on open-economy macroeconomics. In a long career at the International Monetary Fund (culminating as Director of the IMF Institute) he led or oversaw the work on both major advanced countries and the largest emerging market countries, negotiated numerous IMF crisis loans, and was instrumental in the development of IMF policies. He has taught at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and at Bowdoin College, has been a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, and an adviser to private financial institutions.