During this session, Deputy Under Secretary for International Finance at the U.S. Department of the Treasury Brent Neiman will talk about the United States’ role in global economic diplomacy, as well as the multilateral response to recent global shocks. Dr. Neiman will discuss core international economic priorities, including the ongoing response to address the fallout from Russia’s war in Ukraine, cross-border debt issues, IMF governance, and global financial regulation and supervision.

Before joining the Treasury department, Dr. Neiman was the Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. His teaching and research focused on international macroeconomics, finance, and trade. He was a co-founder of the Global Capital Allocation Project and served as the director of the Initiative on International Economics at the Becker Friedman Institute and co-director of the Initiative for Global Markets at Chicago Booth.

Dr. Neiman previously served as the staff economist for international finance on the White House Council of Economic Advisers and has worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, at McKinsey and Company, and at the McKinsey Global Institute. In addition, he was a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research, and an associate editor of The American Economic Review, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, and The Journal of International Economics. Neiman earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of Pennsylvania. He earned a master’s degree in mathematical modelling from Oxford University, where he was a Thouron Scholar, and received his PhD in economics from Harvard University.

Speaker

Brent Neiman
Deputy Under Secretary for International Finance
U.S. Department of the Treasury

Moderator

Mark Barnekow (MBA’88)
Executive Director
The University of Chicago Yuen Campus in Hong Kong

In-Person Event (Invitation only, closed-door session)

Program

September 15, 2023 (Friday), on campus
4:30 pm Event Registration
5:00 pm Guest Presentation
6:00 pm Networking (Cocktails and refreshments will be served)
7:00 pm Event ends

*Shuttle bus service

Running from MTR Kennedy Town Station Exit C to The University of Chicago Yuen Campus in Hong Kong - 4:15pm / 4:30pm / 4:45pm
Running from The University of Chicago Yuen Campus in Hong Kong to MTR Kennedy Town Station – 6:45pm / 7:00pm / 7:15pm

*Please note that this event is by invitation only