My work builds on (or reacts to) experience during a long period at the International Monetary Fund where I was Deputy Director of the European Department when I left in mid-2007. In my work on Europe, I guided the IMF’s teams working with governments in Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey, the UK and Germany. Prior to this I was a member of the Research Department (where my work focused on exchange rate issues and SDR issues), Asian Department (where I was chief of divisions for India and Thailand) and Policy Development and Review Department (where I established the ex poste evaluation division). 

During the past three years, I have divided my time among a number of projects. I have worked with several institutions (Center for Economic and Social Research in Warsaw, Southeast European Studies at Oxford housed in St. Antony's College, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, and the Joint Vienna Institute) on my longstanding interest in growth models for European emerging market economies.  I am currently a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, where I have just started to blog on the crisis in Greece. I also have been active on the topic of international economic governance, particularly as a consultant to the Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF. And in an ongoing project I am working on a book Emerging Economies, Financial Crises and Global Governance: Lessons from Turkish History.

My CV attached to this website has details.