Steve H. Hanke
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Professor Applied Economics The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland 21218 Telephone: 410.516.7183 Telefax: 410.516.8996 Email: Hanke@jhu.edu Website: http://www.cato.org/people/hanke.html |
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Dr. Steve H. Hanke is a Professor of
Applied Economics and Co-Director of the Institute for Applied Economics
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 a Principal of
Chicago Partners, LLC, a Chicago-based firm that provides economic and
accounting advice in the areas of securities, intellectual property, antitrust,
business torts and other complex litigation disputes.
Dr. Hanke advises governments on currency and regulatory reform, privatization,
public finance 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 President and State Counselor,
Republic of Montenegro (1999 - 2003), and Economic Advisor to the Minister
of Economy and Finance, Republic of Ecuador (2001 - 2002).
Dr. Hanke is also a columnist for Forbes magazine and a contributing editor
for Forbes Global 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 numerous books and articles on economics
and finance. These have been published in English, French, German, Spanish,
Bulgarian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish, Hebrew, Russian
and Chinese.
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, and a Professor Asociado
at the Universidad del Azuay in Cuenca, Ecuador. 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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