South African Institute of International Affairs and Wits Business School invite you to a WBS / SAIIA Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Marcus Noland on  ‘Managing the Global Economy in Turbulent Times: A view from Washington’

Date:        Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Time:        17h30 for 18h00 Cocktails to follow (Cash Bar)
Location:   Bert Wessels Lecture Theatre, Wits Business School 
RSVP:       Aurora Raminhos, 011 717 3615 or Aurora.Raminhos@wits.ac.za

Dr. Marcus Noland, was recently appointed Deputy-Director of the Washington-based Petersen Institute for International Economics. The Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of international economic policy. Since 1981 the Institute has provided timely and objective analysis of, and concrete solutions to, a wide range of international economic problems. It is one of the very few economics think tanks that are widely regarded as "nonpartisan" by the press and "neutral" by the US Congress, and it is cited by the quality media more than any other such institution. The first comprehensive survey of over 5,000 such institutions in all countries recently ranked it top think tank in the world. For more on the institute please consult their webpage at http://www.iie.com/institute/aboutiie.cfm.

Noland has been associated with the Institute since 1985. His work encompasses a wide range of topics including the political economy of US trade policy and the Asian financial crisis. His areas of geographical knowledge and interest include Asia and Africa where he has lived and worked. In the past he has written extensively on the economies of Japan, Korea, and China, and is unique among American economists in having devoted serious scholarly effort to the problems of North Korea and the prospects for Korean unification. He won the 2000-01 Ohira Memorial Award for his book Avoiding the Apocalypse: The Future of the Two Koreas.

Noland was educated at Swarthmore College (BA) and the Johns Hopkins University (PhD). He is currently a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and he was a Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President of the United States. He has held research or teaching positions at Yale University, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Southern California, Tokyo University, Saitama University (now the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies), the University of Ghana, the Korea Development Institute, and the East-West Center. He has received fellowships sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, and the Pohang Iron and Steel Corporation (POSCO).