Stephen Roach is a Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and a Senior Lecturer at Yale’s School of Management. He was formerly Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the firm’s Chief Economist.

Mr. Roach’s current teaching and research program focuses on Asia’s impact on the global economy. At Yale, he has introduced new courses for undergraduates and graduate students on the “The Next China” and “The Lessons of Japan.” His writing and research also addresses globalization, trade policy, the post-crisis policy architecture, and the capital markets implications of global imbalances. Recent books published by Stephen include Stephen Roach on the Next Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for a New Globalization (2010), and Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China (2015).

Levinsohn is the founding Director of Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. In that capacity, he oversees the Global Affairs major in Yale College, the Global Affairs MA programs, and Yale’s World Fellows Program. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has consulted for many government and non-governmental organizations as well as many multinational corporations.

Levinsohn’s fields of expertise are international economics, industrial organization, economic development, and applied econometrics. He has published widely on trade policy, youth employment policy, and the global corporation. He has served on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review, the Journal of International Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Journal of Economic Literature. Both his teaching and his research have been recognized with major grants and awards.