Steve Hanke
Steve Hanke is Professor of Applied Economics and Founder and Co-Director of the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise at Johns Hopkins University. Hanke has an illustrious career as an economist, academic, and advisor. He is also a well-known currency and commodity trader, and was one of the few who accurately predicted the recent bout of U.S. inflation and its subsequent decline. Over the four decades, Hanke has advised dozens of world leaders from Ronald Reagan to Indonesia’s Suharto on currency reforms, infrastructure development, privatization, and how to tame hyperinflation.
Steve Hanke Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Professor of Applied Economics
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Senior Fellow
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Contributor
Academic History
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Ph.D., Economics
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B.S., Business Administration
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
Senior Fellow, Independent Institute
Senior Advisor, Renmin University of China's International Monetary Research Institute
Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Advanced Metallurgical Group
Chairman Emeritus, Friedberg Mercantile Group
Special Counselor, Financial Stability in New York
Contributing Editor, Central Banking in London
Contributor, National Review
EXPERTISE
He specializes in exchange rate regimes and crisis management.
Prof. Hanke served on President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers, has been an adviser to five foreign heads of state and five foreign cabinet ministers, and held a cabinet-level rank in both Lithuania and Montenegro.
He played an important role in establishing new currency regimes in Argentina, Estonia, Bulgaria, Bosnia‐Herzegovina, Ecuador, Lithuania, and Montenegro.
Hanke has also held senior appointments in the governments of many other countries, including Albania, Kazakhstan, the United Arab Emirates, and Yugoslavia.
EARLY CAREER
He was President of Toronto Trust Argentina in Buenos Aires in 1995, when it was the world’s best-performing mutual fund.
He wrote a regular column in Forbes from 1993 to 2010.
He taught economics at the Colorado School of Mines and at the University of California, Berkeley.
Most recently, Hanke was a Senior Fellow and Director of the Troubled Currencies Project at the Cato Institute, a contributor at National Review, a well-known currency reformer, and a currency and commodity trader.
RECOGNITION
2020 Knight of the Order of the Flag, Albanian President Ilir Meta
1998 25 Most Influential People in the World, World Trade Magazine
3rd Most Influential Economics Influener, FocusEconomics in Barcelona
MEDIA & APPEARANCES