About me

I study business and finance at Columbia University while researching financial regulation, economic statecraft, and other global economic issues at the Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy and the Center on Global Energy Policy.

Previously, I worked on the New Bagehot Project at Yale, which provides practical advice to policymakers facing financial crises (Press: Bloomberg, Politico, IMF). I focused on restructuring distressed banks, with a regional focus on the EU, China, and the US. Lately, I'm focused on corporate and sovereign restructuring, too. My research has been cited by The Economist, the Financial Times, Business Insider, and The White House, among others.

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I write about business, finance, and politics for Foreign Policy, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The National Interest, and other outlets. I'm broadly interested in how states and markets interact, and I spend a lot of time thinking about money—what it is, how it moves through systems, and how society organizes itself around it. I’m a member of the National Book Critics Circle and my preferred form is the review essay.

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More about me

I teach financial literacy at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. Occasionally, I provide objective economic analysis in testimony before state legislature. I run, bike, open-water swim, and cross-country ski, and I compete in triathlons at the Olympic and 70.3 distances.

I live in New York City and contribute to the Metropolitan Diary.