Monica Baumgarten De Bolle

Expertise

Regions

• Argentina
• Brazil
• Latin America
• Mexico

Topics

• Capital Markets
• Emerging Markets
• Financial Crises
• Financial Regulation
• Foreign Exchange Policy
• Macroeconomics
• Monetary and Fiscal Policy
• Trade and Inequality

Languages

• Portuguese
• Spanish

Background and Education

Monica de Bolle is the Director of the Johns Hopkins SAIS Latin American Studies Program and Emerging Markets Specialization.  She is also a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.  Previously, de Bolle served as the JHU SAIS Practitioner in Residence of International Economics and Emerging Markets, and a member of the school''s adjunct faculty.  Named as "Honored Economist" in 2014 by the Order of Brazilian Economists for her contributions to the Brazilian policy debate, de Bolle focuses on macroeconomics, foreign exchange policy, monetary and fiscal policy, trade and inequality, financial regulation, and capital markets. Previously de Bolle was a director of the Institute for Economic Policy Research (IEPE/Casa das Garças), a prestigious think tank based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  She has also worked as an economist at the International Monetary Fund.
 
De Bolle has authored and coauthored a number of books on the global economy and Brazil''s policy challenges, including her most recent book How to Kill the Blue Butterfly: A Chronicle of the Dilma Era (2016), which remained on Brazil´s best seller lists for several weeks and was a finalist for Premio Jabuti, a prestigious literature prize. Other publications include: The State of the World Economy to Challenges and Responses: Essays in Honor of Pedro S. Malan (2014), The Future of Brazilian Manufacturing: The Deindustrialization Debate (2013), New Dilemmas in Economic Policy (2011), Financial Regulation Reform in the US: New Global Architecture and the Brazilian Regulatory Context (2009), and How to Respond to the Global Financial Crisis? Economic Policies for Brazil (2009).
 
Her views on Brazil''s economy and economic policy have been published widely by the international and Brazilian media. She contributes regularly to major Brazilian newspapers O Globo _and _O Estado de São Paulo. 
 
De Bolle obtained her BA in economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and holds a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.