Experts
Steve H. Hanke
Special Counselor
shanke@the-cfs.org
Dr. Steve H. Hanke is a Professor of
Applied Economics and Co-Director of the Institute for Applied Economics,
Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise at the Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore. In the past, he taught economics at the University
of California at Berkeley and the Colorado School of Mines in Golden.
He is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. He has
held other senior research positions at universities and research institutes
in Austria, France, Israel, Kenya, Sweden and the U.S.A. He has
served as Chairman of the Friedberg Mercantile Group, Inc. in New York
and President of Toronto Trust Argentina in Buenos Aires, the world’s
best-performing emerging market mutual fund in 1995. In those capacities,
he was responsible for developing strategies for trading foreign exchange,
commodities and a wide variety of securities. Currently Dr. Hanke is
Chairman of the Richmond Group Fund Co., Ltd., a global macro hedge
fund located in Richmond, Virginia.
Dr. Hanke advises governments on currency
and regulatory reform, privatization, public finance, infrastructure
finance and management and capital market development. His appointments
have included: Member of the Maryland Governors Council of Economic
Advisors (1976-80), Senior Economist on President Reagan's Council of
Economic Advisers (1981 - 82), Senior Advisor to the Joint Economic
Committee of the U.S. Congress (1984-86), Member of the Presidential
Task Force on Project Economic Justice (1985-87), Personal Economic
Adviser to the Vice President of Yugoslavia (1990 - June 1991), State
Counselor on Monetary and Financial Issues, Republic of Lithuania (1994
- 96), Advisor to the Minister of Economy, Republic of Argentina (1995
- 96), Advisor to the Fundo de Inversiones de Venezuela (1995-96), Advisor
to the President of Bulgaria (1997 - 2001), Special Counselor to the
Economic and Monetary Resilience Council, Republic of Indonesia (1998
- May 1998), Advisor to the President and State Counselor, Republic
of Montenegro (1999 - 2003), Economic Advisor to the Minister of Economy
and Finance, Republic of Ecuador (2001 - 2002), a member of the National
Bank of Kuwait’s International Advisory Board (2007 - present), and
a member of the Financial Advisory Council of the United Arab Emirates
(2008 - present), a Senior Advisor at the Renmin University of China’s
International Monetary Research Institute (2011 - present). Dr. Hanke
is also a contributing editor for Globe Asia magazine. In addition,
he is a contributing editor for Central Banking and The International
Economy and serves on the editorial boards of numerous scholarly journals.
He is the author of many books and articles on economics and finance.
These have been published in English, French, German, Spanish, Bulgarian,
Estonian, Lithuanian, Georgian, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish, Hebrew, Russian
and Chinese. Dr. Hanke’s most recent books are Zimbabwe: Hyperinflation
to Growth and A Blueprint for a Safe, Sound Georgian Lari.
Dr. Hanke is a member of the Steering
Committee of The G-7 Council in Washington, D.C., a Distinguished Associate
of the International Atlantic Economic Society, a recipient of the degree
Doctor of Arts Honoris Causa from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito,
a Doctorate of Economics, Honoris Causa from the Free University of
Tbilisi, a Professor Asociado at the Universidad del Azuay in Cuenca,
Ecuador, and a Distinguished Professor at the Universidad Pelita Harapan
in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 1995-97, he was a member of the Board of Governors
of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. He was named one of the world's
twenty-five most influential people by World Trade magazine in 1998.
Dr. Hanke and his wife, Liliane, reside
in Baltimore and Paris.
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