Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics
International economics and finance; International Monetary Fund; China.
Steven Dunaway is adjunct senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Dr. Dunaway is a former deputy director of the Asia and Pacific department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). From November 2001 until December 2008, he was primarily responsible for directing the IMF's country work on China and headed the IMF's consultation missions with the Chinese government. This was Dr. Dunaway's second assignment on China at the IMF; in the late 1980s, he was desk officer for China. Prior to his assignment in the Asia and Pacific department, Dr. Dunaway was head of the North American division in the IMF's western hemisphere department. In that capacity, he directed the IMF's consultations missions with the United States and Canada.
During his 25-year career at the IMF, Dr. Dunaway had a wide variety of other country assignments, ranging from such countries as Australia and New Zealand to Indonesia and the Philippines. In addition, during the mid-1990s, he directed the IMF's research on private capital flows to developing countries and handled IMF support for Brady debt deals for Ecuador, Panama, and Peru.
Prior to working at the IMF, Dr. Dunaway worked for 10 years at the Bureau of Economic Analysis in the U.S. Department of Commerce, doing analysis and forecasting of U.S. international transactions. Dr. Dunaway holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics from the Universities of Louisville and Cincinnati, and he received his PhD in economics from the George Washington University.
Washington, District of Columbia
CFR Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics and author of the Council Special Report, Global Imbalances and the Financial Crisis.
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