Professor David Begg
David’s research focuses mainly on monetary policy, exchange rates, monetary
union, and economic transition. He is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic
Policy Research, a network of leading European economists. He co-authored several
of the CEPR annual reports in the series he helped found: Monitoring the
European Central Bank, and Monitoring European Integration. The
1997 MEI Report, EMU: getting the endgame right, changed the policy
that the European Union adopted to launch the euro 1999. He was also founding
Managing Editor of Economic Policy, now an official journal of the European
Economic Association. David has always been interested in applying economic theory to policy design.
He spent a year as Economic Policy Adviser at the Bank of England; was commissioned
by the IMF to assess the quality of its monetary policy advice in Central and
Eastern Europe; and is currently a member of the group of economics professors
that meet regularly with Gordon Brown. David is also committed to management education. He has provided in-house training
for the government of Czechoslovakia, the National Bank of Hungary, the Bank
of England, and HM Treasury. He has also been Senior Tutor of the Oxford University
Business Summer School. Stanley Fischer
Stanley Fischer is First Deputy Director of the International Monetary Fund. Rudiger Dornbusch
Rudiger Dornbusch is Ford Professor of Economics and International Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Techology. | 
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