Susan Schadler

Susan Schadler

While lawyers mandate and businesses eye the bottom line, economists, at their best, couple well-defined policy objectives with an understanding of the incentives that motivate human behavior. This perspective underlies my work, which, in the broadest terms, addresses the economic and institutional requirements for a dynamic and equitable global economy. Latest book explores how the new members of the EU have managed to turn large capital inflows into some of the fastest growth rates in the world.		Susan Schadler has focused on policy advice, evaluation and research in international finance and macroeconomics at the International Monetary Fund. Her research concerns how financial markets assess emerging market countries, growth and vulnerabilities in emerging markets, design of fiscal rules, and program evaluation. Her evaluation work has covered key issues in IMF policy advice, especially in connection with lending programs. She has lead the IMF’s work with governments in Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey, Asia, the United Kingdom and Germany. She left the IMF in mid-2007 and is now a consultant and writer in Washington. Currently, she is heading an evaluation of the IMF's role in trade policy advice for the Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF heading and writing a book on convergence and crisis in emerging market countries. She holds degrees from Mount Holyoke College and the London School of Economics. Before leaving the IMF, she was Deputy Director in the the European Department and held senior positions in the Asian and Policy Development and Review Departments.