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Brad W. Setser

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Brad W. Setser

Brad W. Setser is a senior fellow in the Greenberg Center for Geoeconomics, where his expertise includes international macro-economics, global capital flows, financial vulnerability analysis, sovereign         debt restructuring and the management of financial crises. Previously, he served as the deputy assistant secretary for international economic analysis in the U.S. Treasury from 2011-15, where he worked on Europe's financial crisis, currency policy, financial sanctions and commodity shocks and Puerto Rico's debt crisis. He was previously the director for international economics, serving jointly on the staff of the National Economic Council and the National Security Council. Dr. Setser is the author of Sovereign Wealth and Sovereign Power (CFR, 2008) and a coauthor of Bailouts and Bail-ins: Responding to Fi- nancial Crises in Emerging Economies (Peterson Institute, 2004), which draw lessons emerging market financial crises between 1995 and 2003. His work has been published in Foreign Affairs, Finance and Development, Global Governance and Georgetown Journal of International Law, among others. Dr. Setser was an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in 2003 and a fellow from 2007-09. He also has been the director of global research for Roubini Global Economics and a visit- ing scholar at the International Monetary Fund. Dr. Setser received his B.A. from Harvard University, a master's from SciencesPo, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in international relations from Oxford University.