Peter PETRI is the Carl J. Shapiro professor of international finance at the Brandeis International Business School (IBS) and a senior fellow of the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. He served as dean of IBS from its founding in 1994 until 2006, and has held appointments as a Fulbright research scholar and visiting scholar at the Asian Development Bank Institute, OECD, the Brookings Institution, Keio University (Tokyo) and Fudan University (Shanghai). Dr. Petri has consulted for the World Bank, the OECD, the Asian Development Bank, APEC, and several agencies of the United Nations, the United States and other countries, he serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals dedicated to Asia-Pacific research. He is the convener of the East-West Center’s East-West Dialogue, a member of the board of the U.S. Asia Pacific Council, the PAFTAD International Steering Committee, and a former chair of the U.S. APEC Study Center Consortium. Dr. Petri received A.B. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Harvard University. He was a Faculty member at the 2009 Freeman Foundation Symposium, Strengthening Cooperation between the US and East Asia.