2007-08, Chief Economist, and Director of its Research Department, International Monetary Fund; Co-Founder, BaselineScenario.com, a website on global economy. Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC; Member, Panel of Economic Advisers, US Congressional Budget Office: since January 2010, Contributing Business Editor, Huffington Post. Weekly contributor, Economix, NYT.com; monthly column with Project Syndicate that runs in publications around the world; recent articles for Atlantic, New Republic, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, and Financial Times. Co-Director, NBER Africa Project, and works with non-profits and think tanks. Co-Author: 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and The Next Financial Meltdown, an assessment of dangers now posed by the US financial sector (2010).