Serving on the front lines of global finance to promote growth and trade, and forging ties to advance health, humanitarian and cultural understanding.

Please find attached an op-ed written by me along with Stuart Mackintosh on what we believe to be China’s greatest economic challenge.  While most economists and China observers are concentrating on the country’s property sector problems brought on by the recent...

Most policymakers and experts around the world agree that some level of debt transparency is required for effective sovereign liability management. But there is far less agreement on what information should be disclosed, who should disclose, and whether disclosure...

World Bank President David Malpass joined BWC Vice Chair William R. Rhodes to discuss the Bank's outlook for global development and the Covid-19 recovery. https://www.brettonwoods.org/article/in-conversation-with-world-bank-president-david-malpass-0

William R. Rhodes was made Commander of the Legion of Honor, the highest rank of the order, by the Ambassador from France to the United States Philippe Etienne https://wrrga.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Legion-of-Honor.pdf

Dear Friends: Following is a link to a webinar I moderated with the new head of the Inter-American Development Bank, Mauricio Claver-Carone, on the effects of the COVID pandemic on the region’s economy and the possibility that if not properly managed, it could turn...

Dear Friends Attached is a Bloomberg article on the need to finalize the Eurozone Banking Union, which is long overdue.  I co-wrote this article with Stuart MacIntosh, Managing Director of the Group of 30.  Please let me know any thoughts or comments you...

Dear Friends, Following is a link to a Bloomberg Radio interview I did yesterday covering the world economy, Covid-19 pandemic and its financial affects on emerging markets.  I also covered the idea of using local currency debt for the emerging market countries to...

Dear Friends, Please find attached a timely op-ed I co-authored with Cristina Valencia, an experienced epidemiologist. The recommendations on this op-ed could possibly be a game changer that will help finance the flow of needed Covid-19 vaccines to Latin America, the...

Dear Friends, Please find attached an op-ed that I wrote with Stuart Mackintosh on the threats to recovery coming out of the Covid pandemic economic crisis.  I believe it is a timely warning on the possible longer term downsides of massive fiscal and monetary stimulus...