John Lipsky is First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF. He was previously Vice Chairman of the JPMorgan investment bank. Lipsky earlier was JPMorgan’s Chief Economist, and Chase Manhattan Bank’s Chief Economist and Director of Research. He spent a decade at the IMF in the 1970s and 1980s, helping to manage the Fund’s exchange rate surveillance procedure and to analyze developments in international capital markets.
Recent Blog Posts by John Lipsky
- 2011—A Pivotal Year for Global Cooperation
- Macro-Prudential Policies: Putting the “Big Picture” into Financial Sector Regulation
- Forewarned Is Forearmed: How the Early Warning Exercise Expands the IMF’s Surveillance Toolkit
- Changing Times: Global Governance Reform and the IMF
- Don’t Forget Financial Sector Reform
- 2010 Outlook: New Year, New Decade, New Challenges

















