James R. Lothian

James R. Lothian received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in economics from the University of Chicago and his B.A. magna cum laude from the Catholic University of America.

Lothian is an active researcher in the area of international monetary economics and international finance and an award-winning teacher at Fordham. He has published widely in both academic publications and the financial press.

He has been at Fordham since 1990 and has been the Editor of Journal of International Money and Finance since 1986. Prior to becoming a full-time academic, he was Vice President in charge of financial research at Citibank/Citicorp.

He also has been a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Visiting Scholar at the IMF, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. He has served as a consultant for several government agencies and a number of major corporations.