Brandeis International Business School

Lisa M. Lynch

Provost and Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy

Lisa M. Lynch, is provost and executive vice president of academic affairs of Brandeis University, as well as the Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy. Previously, she served as interim president of Brandeis University from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016, provost from October 30, 2014 to June 30, 2015, and dean of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management from July 2008 to October 2014. Lynch is currently a member of the Economic Advisory Panel of the New York Federal Reserve Bank and the International Advisory Council of Bocconi University, and has served as chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor (1995-1997); director (2004-2009), chair (2007-2009) of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; chair of the Conference of Chairmen of the Federal Reserve System (2009); and president of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (2013-2014). In addition, she has served on the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (2008-2015) and the National Academies Committee on National Statistics (2009-2015). She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at IZA (Institute for Labor Economics, Germany). She has published extensively on the impact of technological change and organizational innovation (especially training) on productivity and wages, the determinants of youth unemployment, and the school-to-work transition, among other issues. She has been a faculty member at Tufts University, MIT, the Ohio State University, and the University of Bristol. Lynch earned her BA in economics and political science at Wellesley College, and her MSc. and PhD in economics at the London School of Economics.

John P. Lipsky

Peter G. Peterson Distinguished Scholar
Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs
Senior Fellow
Foreign Policy Institute
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC

John Lipsky is the Peter G. Peterson Distinguished Scholar at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs of Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC. He also is a senior fellow of SAIS’s Foreign Policy Institute. Prior to joining SAIS in January 2012, Mr. Lipsky had served a five-year term as the International Monetary Fund’s first deputy managing director. From May to July 2011, Mr. Lipsky was the IMF’s acting managing director. Prior to joining the IMF as first deputy in September 2006, Mr. Lipsky had been vice-chairman of the JPMorgan Investment Bank. Previously, he had been JPMorgan’s chief economist, after having served as chief economist and director of research for Chase Manhattan Bank. Before joining Chase in January 1997, Mr. Lipsky spent 13 years at Salomon Brothers – the last five as chief economist – following a decade at the IMF.

Mr. Lipsky currently serves as the chairman of the National Bureau of Economic Research and is the co-chair of the Aspen Institute’s Program on the World Economy, and is the Executive Committee vice chair of the Center for Global Development. He also is a director of the Center for Global Development Europe, and of the American Council on Germany, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). Mr. Lipsky is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He received a B.A. in economics from Wesleyan University, and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.

Stephen Cecchetti

Rosen Family Chair in International Finance in the Brandeis International Business School

Stephen G. Cecchetti is the Rosen Chair in International Finance at the Brandeis International Business School, a research associate of National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. From 2008 to 2013, Professor Cecchetti served as economic adviser and head of the monetary and economic department at the Bank for International Settlements. During his time at the Bank for International Settlements, Cecchetti participated in the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the Financial Stability Board post-crisis global regulatory reform initiatives to establish new international standards for ensuring financial stability.

In addition to his other appointments, Professor Cecchetti, from 1997–1999 served as executive vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and from 1992-2001 he was editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.

Cecchetti has published widely in academic and policy journals, is the author of a leading textbook in money and banking, and blogs at www.moneyandbanking.com.

Professor Cecchetti holds an undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a doctorate from the University of California Berkeley, and an honorary doctorate in economics from the University of Basel.