Behzad Diba, Ph.D., SAIS Professorial Lecturer in International Economics and Professor of Economics at Georgetown University. Previously taught at Tulane University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Brown University. Worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank. Has taught courses on macroeconomics, financial markets, international finance and applications of mathematical methods. Research interests include macroeconomics and international finance. Received his Ph.D. in economics from Brown University.
Macroeconomics John Harrington, Ph.D., SAIS Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professorial Lecturer in International Economics. Has taught at SAIS for 28 years, including throughout his 20-year government career at the Department of State where he directed economics education for foreign affairs professionals at the Foreign Service Institute. Subsequently directed the Office of Regional Economic Policy in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs. Continued his work dealing with economic policy through his association with Caribbean/Latin American Action, the U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce and the Greater American Business Coalition. Has been the director of the SAIS Pre-Term Program since 1998. Received the 1999 Excellence in Teaching Award by SAIS students. Created DVD-based courses on pre-calculus and basic calculus for economists that offer a high technology approach to education. Received his Ph.D. in economics from Georgetown University.
Director of Pre-Term Brita Johanson Caminiti, M.A., SAIS Pre-Term ESL Coordinator and Coordinator and Lecturer in the Italian Program. Since 2005 has taught and developed materials for Listening and Speaking ESL courses in SAIS’ English Program. Also taught ESL at College of Notre Dame and Phillips Andover Academy, and led EFL courses in Italy at Accademia Americana. Has also been teaching Italian at SAIS since 2001, and has served as an Italian lecturer at Tufts University and teaching assistant at Harvard University. Research interests include comparative literature and sociolinguistics. Received her M.A. degrees in Italian and Italian literature from The Johns Hopkins University and Middlebury College.
ESL Matthias Matthijs, Ph.D., SAIS Assistant Adjunct Professor of Political Economy. Serves as a consultant to the Foreign Investment Advisory Service of the World Bank, focusing on private sector development and investment climate issues in post-conflict countries. Received fellowships from the King Baudouin Foundation and the Belgian American Educational Foundation. Research interests include globalization, political economy, macroeconomic policy, postwar Britain and the welfare state. Author of articles published in De Standaard, the World Bank Policy Research Paper Series and SAISPHERE. Received his Ph.D. in international relations from SAIS.
Microeconomics Lindsay Oldenski, M.P.P., SAIS Professorial Lecturer in International Economics. Pursuing a Ph.D. in economics at University of California, San Diego. Former adjunct professor at California State University, San Marcos, and former teaching assistant at Harvard University and University of California, San Diego. Served as a business analyst at Kalypsys, Inc. and a financial economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Author of "Searching for Structure in the Federal Excise Tax System: An Excise Tax Expenditure Budget" in National Tax Journal and several papers on international trade in services. Received her M.P.P. from Harvard University.
Accelerated Microeconomics Wendy Takacs, Ph.D., SAIS Professorial Lecturer in International Economics. Professor of economics at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Served as co-director of the joint U.N. Development Program-World Bank Trade Expansion Program and worked on international economic issues at the Federal Reserve and the International Monetary Fund. Former president of the International Trade and Finance Association. Areas of expertise include the world trading system, analysis of non-tariff trade barriers, and trade policy reform in developing and transitional economies. Received her Ph.D. in economics from The Johns Hopkins University.
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