About me

Most recently, I was a researcher at Columbia University’s Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy and its 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.

Research ↗

My writing on business, finance, and politics has appeared in Foreign Policy, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, 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.

Writing ↗

More about me

I taught financial literacy at Sing Sing Correctional Facility and occasionally provided 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’m a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the Economic Club of New York.

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