Background Considerations to a Re-regulation of the U.S. Financial System: Third Time a Charm? Or Strike Three?

About the Author

Jan Allen Kregel
Professor, Levy Economics Institute
Bard College

Jan Kregel is a senior scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and director of its Monetary Policy and Financial Structure program. He also holds the positions of professor of development finance at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia and Distinguished Research Professor in the University of Missouri, Kansas City. In 2009, Kregel served as Rapporteur of the President of the UN General Assembly’s Commission on Reform of the International Financial System. He previously directed the Policy Analysis and Development Branch of the UN Financing for Development Office and was deputy secretary of the UN Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters. He is a former professor of political economy at the Università degli Studi di Bologna and a past professor of international economics at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, where he was also associate director of its Bologna Center from 1987 to 1990.