Jessica Wallack

Dr. Jessica Wallack is a Director of the Centre for Development Finance at The Institute of Financial Management and Research (IFMR), Chennai, India. Earlier she was an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Wallack's research interests are split between Latin America and India. She recently co-edited "Federalism and Economic Reform: International Perspectives". Wallack currently coauthors a bi-weekly column in the Financial Express with Nand Kishore Singh, a former member of the Planning Commission of India. She also has served since March 2006 as an Advisory Board Member of the Wilderhill Global Clean Energy Index (NEX). Wallack served as a consultant to the Asian Development Bank in 2002, was an employee of the Inter-American Development Bank in 1998 and 1999, and in 1997 and 1998 Wallack worked at the World Bank as a researcher for Joseph Stiglitz during Stiglitz's tenure as World Bank Chief Economist. Wallack earned a B.A. at Harvard University in Government, and a Ph.D. at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business in Political Economics.
Partial bibliography
*Federalism and Economic Reform: International Perspectives, (Co-edited with T. N. Srinivasan), Cambridge University Press, 2006.
*Improving the Odds: Political Strategies for Institutional Reform in Latin America, (with Merilee Grindle, Carol Graham, and Eduardo Lora), Inter-American Development Bank, 2000.

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