Brad Setser
Senior Economist
Roubini Global Economics
Dr. Brad Setser is Senior Economist at Roubini Global Economics and a research associate at the Global Economic Governance Programme at University College, Oxford. He served at the U.S. Treasury Department from 1997 to 2001, where he worked extensively on the reform of international financial architecture, sovereign debt restructurings, and U.S. policy toward the IMF. Brad ended his tenure at the Treasury Department as the acting director of the Office of International Monetary and Financial Policy. As a visiting scholar at the IMF, Dr. Setser worked on the IMF's proposals to improve the sovereign debt restructuring process and helped to explore the implications of balance sheet analysis for crisis prevention and crisis resolution. He applied the balance sheet analytical framework to help understand the origins of Argentina's crisis, and contributed to similar analysis of Uruguay's crisis. He is a co-author, with Dr. Roubini, of Bailouts or Bail-ins? Responding to Financial Crises in Emerging Economies (Institute for International Economics: 2004). In 2003, Dr. Setser was an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he worked on Bailouts or Bail-ins and was a commentator on sovereign debt, currency reform and the financing of Iraq's reconstruction for CNN international, CNBC and financial press. He has a master and doctorate of philosophy in International Relations from Oxford, a DEA (Masters) in Economie Applique from Sciences-PO, Paris and an undergraduate degree from Harvard University in Government.