SCHOOL of INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

American University · Washington, D.C.

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS -- FACULTY

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MA, International Affairs, International Economic Relations

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C. Randall Henning is an Associate professor at the School of International Service at American University, where he has served since 1995. During the previous ten years, he was a member of the staff of the Institute for International Economics, also in Washington, D.C. Addressing the academic fields of International and Comparative Political Economy, his research themes include economic conflict and cooperation, international economic policymaking and regional economic integration. He has focussed specifically on exchange rate policy, monetary union in Europe, financial stabilization and macroeconomic policy coordination. Currently, he is conducting projects on Asian monetary and financial cooperation and on reforms to policies and institutions in the European Union.

Prof. Henning has authored or co-authored Transatlantic Perspectives on the Euro (2000); The Exchange Stabilization Fund: Slush Money or War Chest? (1999); Cooperating with Europe's Monetary Union (1997); Global Economic Leadership and the Group of Seven (1996); Currencies and Politics in the United States, Germany and Japan (1994); Can Nations Agree? Issues in International Economic Cooperation (1989); Dollar Politics: Exchange Rate Policymaking in the United States (1989); Macroeconomic Diplomacy in the 1980s (1987); as well as numerous articles in academic and policy journals and chapters in edited volumes.

He teaches Contemporary International Monetary (SIS 466/666), Monetary Union in Europe (SIS 519), Economic Policies of the European Union (SIS 630), U.S. Foreign Economic Policy (SIS 385), as well as a course on international financial crises and stabilization (International Economic Policy Coordination, SIS 519). He has also taught the Proseminar in International Affairs I for the mid-career program, Masters of International Service.

Prof. Henning continues to serve as Visiting Fellow at the Institute for International Economics. Among other activities, he has testified to several congressional committees, served as the 1999 European Community Studies Association Distinguished Scholar, and serves on the Fellowship Selection Committee of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He is a member of the American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, European Community Studies Association and American Economic Association.

Prof. Henning holds a BA degree from Stanford University (1978) and MAL.D. and PhD degrees from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (1985).

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Prof. Arturo C. Porzecanski, Distinguished Economist-in-Residence, has been teaching at American University since 2005. Prior to coming to American University, he also taught at Columbia University, New York University, and Williams College .He is a renowned expert in international finance, emerging markets and Latin American economics and politics, which remain the subjects of his teaching and published research. He currently teaches International Economics, International Economic Organizations: Public and Private, International Finance and the Emerging Markets, and Financial Issues in Latin America.

Before joining academia, Dr. Porzecanski worked for nearly three decades as an international economist on Wall Street. He was chief economist for the European group ABN AMRO for five years through early 2005, and previously served as chief economist for the Americas at ING Barings (1994-2000); chief emerging-markets economist at Kidder, Peabody & Co. (1992-1993); chief economist at Republic National Bank of New York (1989-1992); senior economist at J.P. Morgan (1977-1989); research economist at the Center for Latin American Monetary Studies in Mexico City (1975-1976); and visiting economist at the International Monetary Fund (1973). He has also been a consultant to various U.S. government agencies, law and financial firms, and the Inter-American Development Bank.

Professor Porzecanski is on the Board of Directors of the Tinker Foundation and is also a member of the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations, the American Economic Association, and the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association. He also serves as an Arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). He holds a B.A. in economics from Whittier College (1971) and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Pittsburgh (1974, 1975). Prof. Porzecanski keeps homes both in Washington, DC and in Manhattan.

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Stephen Silvia is an associate professor in the School of International Service, American University. Dr. Silvia teaches comparative politics and international economic policy. He also is Director of the P.J. Hoenmans Program on Economic Policy Issues in Germany, Europe and Transatlantic Relations, of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, The Johns Hopkins University , Washington, D.C. Prof. Silvia is on the editorial board of German Politics and Society , which is an academic, peer-review journal based at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Silvia received a PhD in political science from Yale University (1990) and a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University (1981). Dr. Silvia has been a resident scholar at Harvard University's Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, the Freie Universitaet Berlin, the Institut fuer Sozialforschung (Frankfurt/Main), and the Wirtschafts und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut (Dusseldorf).

Dr. Silvia is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of comparative political economy, with an emphasis on the OECD countries, and comparative political parties. His research focuses on comparative economic and institutions - in particular comparative industrial systems and social policy - in the European Union, Germany and the United States, as well as the role of political parties in shaping economic and social policy. Prof. Silvia has written extensively on the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Greens. In 1994 and 1999 he has been author of the chapter on the Social Democratic Party of Germany for the quadrennial German Studies Association book on the German Federal Elections (which is published by Berghahn Press).

Dr. Silvia has participated in the formulation of policy for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the German Trade Union Federation (DGB).

Dr. Silvia is the author of numerous contributions in the field of comparative political economy published in prominent journals and edited volumes in North America, Europe and Japan. He is currently completing a book on industrial relations in united Germany entitled, The Limits of Social Partnership: German Industrial Relations in the Twenty-first Century . Prof. Silvia's awards have included the James Bryant Conant Fellowship in German and European Studies (Harvard University), a Fulbright Junior Researcher Award for work in Germany, a Bosch Younger Scholars Program in the Social Sciences fellowship, and fellowships from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst , Hans-Buckler-Stiftung , Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the National Endowment for the Humanities .

Dr. Silvia chaired the political science section of the German Studies Association in 1997 and in that capacity organized the political science panels for the Association's 1997 meeting in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Silvia is Chair of the PhD Committee of American University's School of International Service.

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