Rebuilding Economies

Class of 1988 past student Chris Becker is committed to growing and rebuilding economies.

With over 25 years in central banking as a Macro-financial Economist and Advisor on Emerging Markets in Asia & the Pacific, today Chris is the Economics Advisor to the Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC.

Shaping the decisions that influence global policy is Chris’ every day task, and to him, that’s where it matters, “for great satisfaction can come from discovering new things and rising to new challenges”.

With its enormous cultural diversity, he describes Washington as a vast melting pot of ideas and policy advice, attributing the “way to influence global policies is to stir the pot and occasionally add seasoning and a side of diplomacy to convince the rest of the world of the best solution”.

With charisma and clear values, Chris shares how, for him, meaning and purpose evolved out of the moments he gained perspective visiting developing countries, in the moments when the advice shared made a genuine difference to how people lived their lives, for “trade is not just re-connecting countries, but also communities within countries”.?

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