Experts
Steve H. Hanke
Special Counselor
shanke@the-cfs.org
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. He is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Troubled Currencies Project at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., a Senior Advisor at the Renmin University of China’s International Monetary Research Institute in Beijing, a Special Counselor to the Center for Financial Stability in New York, and a contributing editor at Globe Asia Magazine and at Central Banking in London. Prof. Hanke is also a member of the Charter Council of the Society of Economic Measurement and of Euromoney Country Risk’s Experts Panel.
In the past, Prof. Hanke taught economics at the Colorado School of Mines and at the University of California, Berkeley. He served as a Member of the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisers in Maryland in 1976-77, as a Senior Economist on President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers in 1981-82, and as a Senior Advisor to the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress in 1984-88. Prof. Hanke served as a State Counselor to both the Republic of Lithuania in 1994-96 and the Republic of Montenegro in 1999-2003. He was also an Advisor to the Presidents of Bulgaria in 1997-2002, Venezuela in 1995-96, and Indonesia in 1998. He played an important role in establishing new currency regimes in Argentina, Estonia, Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ecuador, Lithuania, and Montenegro. Prof. Hanke has also advised the governments of many other countries, including Albania, Kazakhstan, and Yugoslavia.
Prof. Hanke has been awarded honorary doctorate degrees by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, the Free University of Tbilisi, Istanbul Kültür University, and Varna Free University in honor of his scholarship on exchange-rate regimes. He is a Distinguished Associate of the International Atlantic Economic Society, a Distinguished Professor at the Universitas Pelita Harapan in Jakarta, Indonesia, a Professor Asociado (the highest honor awarded to international experts of acknowledged competence) at the Universidad del Azuay in Cuenca, Ecuador, and a Profesor Visitante at the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (the UPC’s highest academic honor). In 1998, he was named one of the twenty-five most influential people in the world by World Trade Magazine. In 2020, Prof. Hanke was named a “Knight of the Order of the Flag” by Albanian President Ilir Meta.
Prof. Hanke is a well-known currency and commodity trader. Currently, he serves as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. in Amsterdam and Chairman Emeritus of the Friedberg Mercantile Group, Inc. in Toronto. During the 1990s, he served as President of Toronto Trust Argentina in Buenos Aires, the world’s best-performing emerging market mutual fund in 1995.
Prof. Hanke’s most recent books are Zimbabwe: Hyperinflation to Growth (2008) and A Blueprint for a Safe, Sound Georgian Lari (2010), Juntas Monetarias para Paises enDesarollo (2015), and Currency Boards for Developing Countries: A Handbook (2015).
Prof. Hanke and his wife, Liliane, reside in Baltimore and Paris.
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Advisory Board
Randal K. Quarles
William R. Rhodes
Eduardo Aninat, Ph.D.
Sheila Bair
Senator Bill Bradley
Joyce Chang
M. Shafik Gabr
Charles Goodhart, CBE, FBA
Henry Kaufman, Ph.D.
Barbara G. Novick
Guillermo Ortiz, Ph.D.
Richard L. Sandor, Ph.D., Dr. Sc.h.c.
Myron S. Scholes, Ph.D.
The Honorable Carole L. Brookins (2010-20)
Judge Richard A. Posner (2010-20)
Experts
Sheila Bair
Advisory Board Member and Senior Fellow
William A. Barnett
Director / Advances in Monetary and Financial Measurement
David Beers
Senior Fellow / Sovereign Risk Analysis and Policy
Bradley J. Bondi Senior Fellow / Legal Studies
Kevin R. Brock Senior Fellow / Cybersecurity Strategy
Alvin Chua Senior Advisor
Stephen Dizard Special Counselor
John D. Feldmann Senior Fellow
Kate Flanagan Senior Fellow / Consumer Finance
Peter Flocos, Esq. (Trustee) Managing Director, Policy and Regulation
Patricia Wilson Fridley Senior Advisor
Diane B. Glossman
Senior Fellow / Financial Institutions
Lawrence Goodman President and Founder
Steve H. Hanke
Special Counselor
Steven Lofchie Senior Fellow / Legal Studies
Robin L. Lumsdaine Senior Fellow / International Finance
Jack Malvey Special Counselor
David X Martin Special Counselor
Ryan Scott Mattson Research Associate
Nicholas Sargen Senior Fellow / Global Markets and Investment Management
Charles Schott Senior Advisor
Kurt Schuler Senior Fellow / Financial History
Liting Su Research Associate
Jeff van den Noort Chief Technology Officer
Yubo Wang Senior Fellow / Financial Markets
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