Desmond Lachman

Desmond Lachman, is a South African-born economist and finance author, who was a senior advisor (1984–1994) and then Deputy Director (1994–1996) at the International Monetary Fund, the Managing Director and Chief Emerging Market Strategist at Salomon Smith Barney (1996–2003), and a Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (2003–). Lachman has served as an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University (2009), and Georgetown University (2010).