CURRICULUM VITAE
George J. Viksnins, Ph.D.
Georgetown University
Department of Economics
Washington, D.C. 20057
Tel: (202) 687-5890
(at home: 342-0402)
FAX: 202/ 687-6102
E-Mail: viksning@.georgetown.edu
Present Position:
Emeritus Professor of Economics, Georgetown University (with the
Department since 1964); also, Director, FMI Financial
Corporation, 1976-1981.
Education:
B.A. in Economics (Distinction), Temple University (1959); M.A.
in Economics, University of Pennsylvania (1960, S.S. Harrison
Scholar); Ph.D., Georgetown University (1964, H.B. Earhart
Fellow).
Professional Experience:
Consulting assignments with Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System, Stanford Research Institute, American Enterprise
Institute for Public Policy Research, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund,  and Agency for
International Development, Consultant to the President of the Bank of Latvia since 1992.

                                                       
Selected Publications:

"The Dollar Overhang and Development Assistance," Intereconomics, March 1973.

"U.S. Military Spending and the Economy of Thailand, 1967-1972," Asian Survey, May 1973.

The Economies of Southeast Asia in 1980 (Washington, D.C.: G.U. Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1975).

"The Decline and Fall of U.S. Foreign Aid," Intereconomics, July 1975.

Proceedings of the Workshop on the Taxation of Financial Institutions, Washington, D.C.: National Savings and Loan League,1975 (Editor).

The Taxation of Financial Institutions, Washington, D.C.: National Savings and Loan League, 1974. Co-authored with Professor K.R. Biederman and Professor J.A. Tuccillo. This study was reprinted in "Hearings before the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs," Financial Institutions Act-1973, May 13-17, 1974,pp. 527-606.

"An Analysis of the Mortgage Tax Credit Provision of the Financial Institutions Act," Journal of Bank Research, Summer 1975. Co-authored with Professors Biederman and Tuccillo.

"The Economic Consequences of Falling Dominoes," Asian Survey, November 1975.

"American Diets and Third World Food," Intereconomics, April 1976.

The Economic and Political Growth Pattern of Asia-Pacific, coedited with L.R. Vasey (Honolulu: The Pacific Forum, 1976).

"U.S. Foreign Aid Trends: A Reassessment," Intereconomics, July/August 1977.

"U.S. - Japanese Trade: Perceptions vs. Reality," Asian Survey, March 1979.

Financial Deepening in the ASEAN Countries, (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1980).

"Evaluating Economic Growth in Latvia", Journal of Baltic Studies, Summer 1981.

"Housing as an Investment: Chicken Little Revisited," in Roger C. Van Tassel (ed.) Fundamental Changes in the Climate for Investments, (Worcester, Mass.: Institute for Economic Studies, 1982.)

"Regional Economic Trends in the U.S.," in National Unity Versus Regional Diversity, (in Japanese) (Sapporo, Japan: Hokkaido University Press, 1983.)

"The Reagan Dollar," Intereconomics, May/June, 1984.

"The Latvian Economy: Change Under Gorbachev?" Journal of Baltic Studies, Fall, 1986.

Financing East Asia's Success (with Michael Skully, Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of New South Wales) (London: Macmillan in association with the American Enterprise Institute, 1987).

"Asian Financial Development: A Comparative Perspective of Eight Countries," (with Michael Skully) Asian Survey, May 1987.

"The Lats -- Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow." Humanities and Social Sciences, Latvia, 4(5)/95.

"The Latvian Monetary Reform" (with Ilmars Rimshevitchs), in Thomas D. Willett et al (eds), Establishing Monetary Stability in Emerging Market Economies (Boulder, Co: Westview Press, 1995).

Economic Systems in Historical Perspective (Kendall/Hunt, 1997).

"Monetary Policy in Latvia," Journal of Baltic Studies, Spring 1997.

"Money Meltdown in Southeast Asia," Intellectual Capital.com, November 13, 1997.

"World Economic Growth and the Baltic States," in Talavs Jundzis (ed.), The Baltic States at Historical Crossroads (Riga:  Academy of Sciences of Latvia, 1998).

"The East Asian Model and the Baltic States," Intereconomics, September/October 1998, reprinted in SOCIETY, January-February 2000.

"Deflation Dangers?" Intellectual Capital.com, October 2, 1998.

"Facing the Millenium as Geezers," IntellectualCapital.com, April 22, 1999 (review of Peterson's Gray Dawn).

"Baltic Monetary Regimes in the XXIst Century," Intereconomics, September/October 2000.

Latvia: Entering the XXIst Century, Roberts Zile et al (Riga: Nacionalais Medicinas Apgads, Ltd., 2000 -- editor)

Miscellaneous:

Program Economist, USAID Mission in Bangkok, 1968-1970; Acting Director and Director, Institute for Comparative Political and Economic Systems, Georgetown University, 1983-2007; lecturer, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State; University Faculty Senate since its inception and presidential appointee to the University Rank and Tenure Committee. Consultant, Voice of America, 1964-1994; Chairman, Baltic Studies Fund, 1983-89, and Director, 1990-present; Visiting Professor UCI (Irvine) 1986-87.

Recent Activities:

Paper at "Regional Identity under Soviet Rule: The Case of the Baltic States, " University of Kiel, June 1987; paper on "Baltic Economic Sovereignty," at conference sponsored by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm, May 1989; two weeks of seminars on Western economics under the auspices of Riga Technical University and the Latvian Economic Association, August 1989; paper at "Glasnost in the Baltic States," University of Rhode Island, March 1990; paper on "Monetary Reform in the Baltic," at AABS conference at the University of Washington, June 1990; testimony on "Recent Developments in the Baltics," House Foreign Affairs Committee, February 1991; paper at "The Politics and Economics of Baltic Independence," University of Toronto, March 1991; paper at "Southeast Asia in the 1990's," Georgetown University, April 1991; paper on "Privatization in Latvia", (with Ilmars Rimshevitschs) World Congress of Latvian Scientists in Riga, Latvia, July 1991 (paper was read by Rimshevitschs and submitted for publication to the Latvian Academy of Sciences); discussant at a symposium on Korea, Indiana University, October 1991; panelist, Foreign Service Institute seminar on the Baltic countries, October 1991; three seminars at the University of Latvia, January 1992; member of the faculty committee for the Pew Economic Freedom Fellows program, 1992-1999; paper on Latvia at a Capitol Hill conference on "The C.I.S.: Needs and Opportunities;" teaching in the Intercollegiate Studies Institute summer program in Indianapolis, August 1992; discussant at a symposium on Korea at Columbia University, September 1992; consultant to Oxford Analytica, Ltd.; panelist at a conference on the Baltic States at the University of Chicago,    May 1993; seminar on "Money and Banking in Latvia" at Lehigh University, April 1996;  paper on "The East Asian Model and the Baltic States," 16th Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, Indiana University, June 1998;seminar on "The Asian Economic Crisis," at Howard University, January 1999;  three seminars (in English) to the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Sept. 1999 and a seminar (in Latvian) to Ventspils College, Oct. 1999; chairman emeritus, Local Arrangements Committee for the 17th Conference of the AABS,  held at Georgetown, June 2000; seminar on "The Asian Crisis and the IMF," at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2000; paper on "Baltic Monetary Regimes in the 21st Century," given at Georgetown in June 2000.  Lecture on "Reaganomics After Twenty Years" at the GU Alumni College Day in New York, February 2001; paper on the same topic at the Washington conference of the Association for Private Enterprise Education, April 2001; panel discussion of the Baltic economies at the Foreign Service Institute, April 2001. Participant, Liberty Fund symposium on W. Roepke, Indianapolis, June 2001. Paper on "Baltic States in Socioeconomic Data Bases," II. World Congress of Latvian Scholars, Riga, August 2001. The former was read in Latvian; an updated and expanded version was given at the 18th Conference of the AABS at Johns Hopkins University, June 2002. Five lectures at the first annual Asia Institute of Political Economy at the University of Hong Kong (co-sponsored by Georgetown and the Fund for American Studies), August 2002.

Recipient of the Walter Judd Freedom Award, July 25, 2002. Other recipients include President Reagan, Jack Kemp, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Harry Wu, and several others.

In May 2005, received the Order of Three Stars from H. E. Vaira Viikje-Freiberga, President of Latvia.