Menzie Chinn is Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is a co-editor of the Journal of International Money and Finance, a Research Associate in the International Finance and Macroeconomics Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, the Congressional Budget Office, the Federal Reserve Board, the European Central Bank, and the Banque de France. He served as Senior Staff Economist for International Finance on the President's Council of Economic Advisers (2000–01). He is coauthor with Jeffry Frieden of Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery (2011, W. W. Norton), and contributor to Econbrowser, a weblog devoted to current macroeconomic issues.
