Department of Economics

George J. Viksnins is Professor of Economics at Georgetown University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1964. From 1976 to 1981, Dr. Viksnins was a Director of the FMI Financial Corporation. He has served as a consultant to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, The World Bank, the Agency for International Development, and the International Monetary Fund. Dr. Viksnins has authored numerous articles and books, including The Economies of Southeast Asia in 1980 (G.U. Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1975), Financial Deepening in the ASEAN Countries (University of Hawaii Press, 1980), and Financing East Asia's Success (with Michael Skully, Macmillan in association with the American Enterprise Institute, 1987). He is currently a senior advisor to the Bank of Latvia. His latest publication is Economic Systems in Historical Perspective(Kendall/Hunt Publ. Co., 1997).