Wenger Family Lecture on International Business and Finance: A View from Treasury: The Global Economy

Wenger Family Lecture on International Business and Finance: 

A View from Treasury: The Global Economy

Monday, March 31 | 5:00-7:00 pm ET
 

Dean Alyssa Ayres invites the GW community to join in conversation with Professor Jay Shambaugh, as part of the Wenger Family Lecture series on International Business and Finance.

About the Speaker: Jay Shambaugh

Professor Jay Shambaugh’s area of research is macroeconomics and international economics. His work includes analysis of the interaction of exchange rate regimes with monetary policy, capital flows, and trade flows as well as studies of international reserves holdings, country balance sheet exchange rate exposure, the cross-country impact of fiscal policy, the crisis in the euro area, and regional growth disparities.

Professor Shambaugh served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs from 2023-2025, and as a Member of the White House Council of Economic Advisors from 2015-2017. Earlier, he served on the staff of the CEA as a Senior Economist for International Economics and then as the Chief Economist. He also spent 3 years as the Director of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER and Non-Resident Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings. Prior to joining the faculty at George Washington, Shambaugh taught at Georgetown and Dartmouth and was a visiting scholar at the IMF.

This event is presented by the Elliott School Office of Development and Alumni Relations and underwritten by the Henry E. & Consuelo S. Wenger Foundation. It is cosponsored by the Institute for International Economic Policy.