Carmen Reinhart
Deputy Director
Research Department
International Monetary Fund

Carmen M. Reinhart is Deputy Director at the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund. She is currently on leave from the University of Maryland where she is a Professor at the School of Public Affairs and the Department of Economics. Professor Reinhart is a Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research; she is in the editorial board of the American Economic Review, among others. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Professor Reinhart has also had experience in the private sector, as she was a vice president at the investment bank Bear Stearns, where she worked as an economist and portfolio strategist for several years. She has written and published on a variety of topics in macroeconomics and international finance and trade including: capital flows to developing countries, capital controls, inflation stabilization, balance of payments and banking crises, and contagion. Her work has been published in leading scholarly journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives and featured in the financial press, including The Economist, the Financial Times, The Washington Times, and The Wall Street Journal.