Associate Director
Menzie Chinn
Menzie Chinn is the new associate director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs, taking over from Karen Holden, who completed her two-year term.
Undergraduate students in the Department of Economics honored Chinn with the Economics Teaching Award for 2006-07.
Earlier this year, Chinn published the book The Economic Integration of Greater China: Real and Financial Linkages and the Prospects for Currency Union with co-authors Yin-Wong Cheung and Eiji Fujii.
During the summer, he presented papers on the Chinese exchange rate and trade balance, as well as the sources
of global current account imbalances at several conferences, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank.