Dr. Desmond Lachman American Enterprise Institute, USA

Desmond Lachman is an economist and finance author, who was a senior advisor and then Deputy Director at the International Monetary Fund, the Managing Director and Chief Emerging Market Strategist at Salomon Smith Barney, and a Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He has also served as an adjunct professor... read moreat Johns Hopkins University, and Georgetown University.

Dr. Lachman has written extensively on the global economic crisis, the U.S. housing market bust, the U.S. dollar, and the strains in the euro area. He is a frequent opinion contributor in publications including the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg, as well as for The Hill, for U.S. News, for Fox News, and for CNN.

He is also regularly interviewed for his views on emerging markets in the financial media, such as in Barron's, CNBC, and the Economist, and on general economics for the wider non-financial national media such as for USA Today, for BBC News, and for NPR.