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Session 19: The IMF in a Changing World
Sponsor: International Roundtable
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Randall S. Kroszner
Professor of Economics
University of Chicago
Randall S. Kroszner is Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
His research interests include: International and domestic banking and financial institutions and their regulation; conflicts of interest in financial services firms; corporate governance, international financial crises; sovereign debt defaults; political economy; monetary economics.
He was a member of Council of Economic Advisers, Executive Office of the President. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate, November 2001, and served until June 2003. He is also Director, George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State.
He has a Sc.B. magna cum laude (applied mathematics-economics), Brown University, 1984; M.A., Harvard University, 1987; Ph.D. (economics), Harvard University, 1990.
Raghuram G. Rajan
Economic Counselor/Director of Research
International Monetary Fund
Raghuram G. Rajan is the Economic Counselor and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund. Prior to holding this post, Rajan taught at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago where he is the Joseph L. Gidwitz Professor of Finance. His research is broadly on the role of institutions, especially financial institutions, in fostering economic development. In 2003, Rajan was awarded the inaugural Fischer Black Prize by the American Finance Association for contributions to finance by an economist under 40. Rajan is an electrical engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. He earned his M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and his Ph.D. from MIT.
