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Steve Hanke
Academic Principal
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Academic— Dr. Steve H. Hanke is a Professor of Applied Economics and Co-Director of the Institute for Applied Economics and the Study of Business Enterprise at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In the past, he taught economics at the University of California at Berkeley and the Colorado School of Mines in Golden.
Research— Hanke is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. He has held other senior research positions at universities and research institutes in Austria, France, Israel, Kenya, Sweden and the U.S.A.
Private Sector— Hanke is a Principal of Chicago Partners, LLC, a Chicago-based firm that provides economic and accounting advice in the areas of securities, intellectual property, antitrust, business torts and other complex litigation disputes. He is also Chairman Emeritus at the Friedberg Mercantile Group, Inc. in Toronto. In the past, he served as Chairman of the Friedberg Mercantile Group, Inc. in New York and President of Toronto Trust Argentina in Buenos Aires, the world’s best performing emerging market mutual fund in 1995. In those capacities, he was responsible for developing strategies for trading foreign exchange, commodities and a wide variety of securities.
Public Sector— Hanke advises governments on currency and regulatory reform, privatization, public finance and capital market development. His appointments have included: Member of the Maryland Governors’ Council of Economic Advisors (1976-77), Senior Economist on President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers (1981 - 82), Senior Advisor to the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress (1984-86), Member of the Presidential Task Force on Project Economic Justice (1985-87), Personal Economic Adviser to the Vice President of Yugoslavia (1990 - June 1991), State Counselor on Monetary and Financial Issues, Republic of Lithuania (1994 - 96), Advisor to the Minister of Economy, Republic of Argentina (1995 - 96), Advisor to the Fundo de Inversiones de Venezuela (1995-96), Advisor to the President of Bulgaria (1997 - 2001), Special Counselor to the Economic and Monetary Resilience Council, Republic of Indonesia (1998), Advisor to President and State Counselor, Republic of Montenegro (1999 - 2003), and Economic Advisor to the Minister of Economy and Finance, Republic of Ecuador (2001 - 2002).
Publications and Editorial— Hanke is a Columnist for Forbes magazine and a Contributing Editor for Forbes Asia (formerly Forbes Global) magazine. In addition, he is a Contributing Editor for Central Banking, Globe Asia, The Independent Review and The International Economy and serves on the editorial boards of numerous scholarly journals. He is the author of numerous books and articles on economics and finance. These have been published in Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, English, Estonian French, German, Hebrew, Lithuanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish and Turkish.
Memberships, Honors, etc.— Hanke is a Member of the National Bank of Kuwait’s International Advisory Board, a Distinguished Associate of the International Atlantic Economic Society, a recipient of the degree Doctor of Arts Honoris Causa from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito and a Profesor Asociado at the Universidad del Azuay in Cuenca, Ecuador. In 1995-97, he was a member of the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. He was named one of the world’s twenty-five most influential people by World Trade magazine in 1998.
