Atish R. Ghosh

IMF Historian and Deputy Director, Strategic, Policy, and Review Department at International Monetary Fund

Atish Rex Ghosh is the IMF Historian, and the Deputy Director in the Strategic, Policy, and Review Department of the International Monetary Fund. Formerly Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Princeton University, he holds degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University. He has published numerous articles in international economics, finance, and public policy, as well as authored four books: Economic Cooperation in an Uncertain World (Blackwell, 1994); Exchange Rate Regimes: Choices and Consequences (MIT Press, 2003); Currency Boards in Retrospect and Prospect (MIT Press, 2008); and Nineteenth Street, NW (Greenleaf, 2010)—a novel about a global financial crash.