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Dr. Michael Pettis is a professor of international finance at Peking University’s Guanghua School of
Management and Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His work and
research focuses on monetary policy, trade policy, and the development of the banking and financial
markets in China.
Prior to his current positions Pettis spent fifteen years as a banker and trader on Wall Street, nine years
as an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Business School, and three years as a professor at
the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University, in Beijing. Before moving to China in
2001 he was Managing Director and ran the Liability Management and Latin American Capital Markets
groups at Bear Stearns. He has also run fixed income trading and capital market desks at CSFB and
Manufacturers Hanover (now JP Morgan). During this time he has advised the Mexican government on
the privatization of the national banking system, the Macedonian government on its commercial bank
debt restructuring, the South Korean government on its 1998 commercial bank debt restructuring, and
various Latin American governments on their debt issuance strategies.
Pettis has published widely, including for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, World Policy Journal, Far
Eastern Economic Review, Columbia Journal of World Business, Wilson Quarterly, Financial Times, The
Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Caijing, and several other leading periodicals. He is also the author of
several books including The Great Rebalancing: Trade, Conflict and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World
Economy (Princeton University Press, 2013), After the Fall: The Future of Global Cooperation, (Geneva:
Int’l Center for Monetary and Banking Studies, 2012, co-authored with Jeffrey Frieden, Dani Rodrik
and Ernesto Zedillo), Is China Vulnerable? The Causes and Consequences of Financial Fragility (Tsinghua
University Press, 2003), The Volatility Machine: Emerging Economies and the Threat of Financial Collapse
(Oxford University Press, 2001), and Managing Sub-Investment Grade Sovereign Risk (Euromoney Press,
1997). His latest book is Avoiding the Fall: China's Economic Restructuring (Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, 2013). Pettis received an MBA in Finance and an MIA in Development Economics
from Columbia University.
Vist Dr. Pettis’ blog http://blog.mpettis.com/.
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