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Hung Tran is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Geoeconomics Center. His research interests include geopolitics and geoeconomics, in particular the US-China strategic rivalry and how the Global South can navigate that conflict. From 2007 to 2019, he was with the Institute of International Finance, rising to be its Executive Managing Director. In 2011-12, he helped coordinate the international private Greek government bond holders in negotiating with Greece, the Eurogroup, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund for a €206 billion Greek sovereign debt restructuring, the largest debt restructuring in history.
In 2001-07, he served as the Deputy Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department, International Monetary Fund. Among other duties, he chaired the Editorial Committee of the Global Financial Stability Report, one of the IMF’s flagship publications.
In the previous two decades, he worked as senior economist, chief economist and global head of research of Rabobank International, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch and Salomon Brothers; having been posted in New York, Frankfurt, Singapore and London. Before that, he briefly taught Economics at New York Institute of Technology.
Hung Tran has authored and published numerous articles and books on economics and financial markets, and has been interviewed and quoted extensively in the international media
