David Vines is Professor of Economics in the Economics Department, Oxford University, and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford as well as Director of the Centre for International Macroeconomics at Oxford’s Economics Department. Formerly a Houblon-Norman Senior Fellow at the Bank of England, he has advised a number of international organisations and governmental bodies. He has published numerous scholarly articles and several books, most recently The Asian Financial Crisis: Causes, Contagion and Consequences with Pierre-Richard Agénor, Marcus Miller, and Axel Weber.