International Network for Economics and Conflict

Lex Rieffel is a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution. He is currently working on policy studies focusing on Southeast Asia, global governance, reform of the IMF and World Bank, and emerging markets finance.  He joined Brookings in 2002 to write Sovereign Debt Restructuring: the Case for Ad Hoc Machinery (published September 2003).  His essay on “Indonesia’s Quiet Revolution” was published in the September-October 2004 issue of Foreign Affairs. His co-authored policy study Out of Business and On Budget: The Challenge of Military Financing in Indonesia was published in June 2007.  His edited volume Myanmar/Burma: Inside Challenges, Outside Interests was published in October 2010.  Previously, he was employed by the Institute of International Finance (1994-2001), U.S. Treasury Department (1975-1994), U.S. Agency for International Development (1971-1975); International Paper Company (1970-71), U.S. Peace Corps (1965-67), and U.S. Navy (1963-65). He has a B.A. (economics) from Princeton University and an M.A.L.D. (international development studies) from the Fletcher School, Tufts University.