Sidney Weintraub ’58 holds the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC. Until about a year ago, he also directed CSIS’s Americas Program, which includes Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada. He has been with CSIS for about 10 years, after retiring from the University of Texas in Austin, where he held the Dean Rusk Chair for International Affairs in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.

Raul A. Lacayo ’71, as president of the Nicaraguan Securities Exchange, is leading an effort in Nicaragua to expand that country’s capital markets legal framework. It is expected that by the end of September, the National Assembly will approve a law that will enable the development of mutual funds, asset securitization, and other institutional and supervisory changes. The new legal framework will promote greater insertion of the Exchange in regional and global financial markets, providing new sources of funds for the country’s economic activity.

Anthony Patrick ’77 is a consulting economics editor in the Asia-Pacific region, based in Sydney and doing editing and training work for organizations including the Asian Development Bank in Manila the Dow Jones Newswires in Singapore and Hong Kong.

Jaime Campos ’79 is executive director of the Argentine Entrepreneurial Association. He follows the main economic and social developments that occur in Argentina and designs policy suggestions in order to improve the local business environment.

Rene Benitez ’85 has moved from Manila to Sydney to start up a financial advisory company and a property trust.

Basil Fuleihan ’85 was Lebanon’s former Minister of Economy and Trade. Following his education at Yale, he earned a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University. Elected member of parliament in 2000, he held several important positions, including project manager for the United Nations Development Program and Minister of the Economy between 2000 and 2003. He was also a professor in the department of economics at the American University in Beirut between 1993 and 2000.

Satoshi Ohuchi ’92 is currently serving as Personal Secretary to Japan’s Senior Vice Minister of Finance.

Kemal Ciliz ’94 is currently a full professor in the electrical engineering department at Bogazici University in Istanbul. He is also the managing partner for Infonet Information Technologies Ltd., which specializes in information security services, and he is on the board of three different IT companies in Istanbul and various civil service organizations.

Kotaro Tamura ’96 was reelected to the Japanese Senate last year. He was appointed a member of the Finance Committee and the Budget Committee.

Pedro Trujillo ’98 writes, “After my graduation from the IDE program I did an MBA at UNC, graduating in 2000. Since then, I have been working for Becton Dickinson in New Jersey in positions of increased responsibility. Most recently I was promoted to Controller for the Business Process Organization.

Alissa DeJonge ’00 is an economist at the Connecticut Economic Resource Center, a nonprofit organization that promotes Economic development. She just completed an assessment of Connecticut’s capacity and trends relative to other states in areas of technology and innovation. Alissa is the First Vice President of the Hartford Area Business Economists and a member of the Board of Trustees of Mercy High School in Middletown.

Gaye B. Muderrisoglu ’00 is currently a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Michigan and continuing work on her dissertation on international conflict.

Shweta Bagai ’01 writes, “After three years at the Development Research Group of the World Bank in Washington DC, I moved to Mozambique for a few months. In addition to working on a Trade Integration Study, I became a certified scuba diver. I am currently back in India, where I am working on trade/investment policy issues with the Confederation of Indian Industry, an industrial lobby group. In particular, I have done substantial work on trade facilitation, including some World Bank publications.”

Zaruhi Sahakyan ’01 is a Ph.D. student in Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are in international trade and public economics.

Gioconda Naranjo Landerer ’02 has left the Inter-American Development Bank Project at the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism of Peru and now is working as an advisor at the National Council of Competitiveness at the Prime Minister Bureau. She writes, “My current job is very exciting and I can tell that to be in a competitive country means a big effort. In this process every single institution of the country is involved. I feel a great sense of satisfaction working improving the living conditions of Peruvians.'

Chian Choo ’03 is currently part of the fixed income investment management team at the asset management arm of DBS Bank, one of the largest banking groups in the Asia-Pacific region. Last year he wrote a paper entitled “How Can Singapore Remain Competitive in a Globalizing World Economy?” and won the first prize in the 2003-04 MAS-ESS Essay Competition, jointly held by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Economic Society of Singapore. He presented this paper at the Singapore Economic Review Conference in summer 2005.

Jun Liu ’03 is currently working at the World Bank in Washington DC as a junior professional associate providing internal support for budget and strategic staffing needs. In addition, he is completing a second master’s degree in finance at Johns Hopkins University. He writes, “I feel really thankful for my Yale education. Because of my preparation in economics and finance at Yale, it is not difficult for me to digest more advanced and specific knowledge in finance fields like modeling and testing.”

Juliana Wang ’04 is currently a second-year doctoral student at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Her specialization is energy economics, and she is interested at looking at energy policy in the context of climate change from a real option perspective.