Anna Gelpern
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Anna Gelpern is a legal scholar and expert on sovereign debt and financial regulation. She is Professor of Law and the Agnes N. Williams Research Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
Biography
Gelpern was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union.{{cite web|author=Anna Gelpern|website=Credit Slips|url=https://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2014/03/my-crimean-summers-and-ukraines-odious-debts.html|title=My Crimean Summers and Ukraine's Odious Debts|date=18 March 2014}} In the early 1980s her family migrated to the United States where she became a citizen. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University, a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, and a Master of Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She then practiced law with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York and London.{{cite web |title=Anna Gelpern |url=https://www.piie.com/experts/senior-research-staff/anna-gelpern |website=PIIE |accessdate=13 October 2020 |language=en |date=2 March 2016}}
Between 1996 and 2002, she served in legal and policy positions at the US Treasury Department.
Following her time at the Treasury, Gelpern has taught at Rutgers Law School at Rutgers University–Newark, then at American University's Washington College of Law, and visiting appointments at Harvard Law School and University of Pennsylvania School of Law. She was also an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations before joining the Peterson Institute for International Economics. She joined Georgetown Law in 2013.
Scholarship and policy work
Together with Hal S. Scott, Gelpern is the coauthor of a leading textbook on international finance, originally published in 1995 and updated in 2018 for its 22nd edition.{{cite book|title=International Finance, Transactions, Policy, and Regulation|author1=Hal S. Scott|author2=Anna Gelpern|isbn=978-1642422788|date=1995|publisher=Foundation Press}}
She co-directs the Sovereign Debt Forum, a collaboration among Georgetown Law’s Institute of International Economic Law and academic institutions in the United States and Europe, dedicated to cutting-edge research and capacity building in sovereign debt management.{{cite web|url=https://www.law.georgetown.edu/iiel/news-and-events/signature-events-overview/sovereign-debt-forum/|website=Georgetown Law|title=Sovereign Debt Forum}}
She has worked as an expert for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. In particular, she was involved in the drafting of the collective action clauses in Argentina's sovereign debt contracts.{{citation |newspaper=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/5b9d712f-e349-4a53-8a2d-0c7a9bc52214|title=Autonomy hedge fund bemoans Argentina's 'bad faith' debt tactics|date=30 June 2020|author=Colby Smith }}
She is frequently quoted in U.S. and international media on issues that issue sovereign debt restructuring and banking sector policy.{{cite web|website=Bloomberg|url=https://news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/worst-crisis-in-em-portends-wall-street-washington-battle-1|title=Plan for Emerging Markets Pits Wall Street Versus Washington|date=30 April 2020|author=Sydney Maki}}{{cite web|website=Voice of America|url=https://www.voanews.com/a/economy-business_coronavirus-crisis-fuels-push-forgive-poor-countries-debts/6188513.html|title=Coronavirus Crisis Fuels Push to Forgive Poor Countries' Debts|author1=Rob Garver|author2=Mark LaMet|date=1 May 2020 }}{{citation|newspaper=The Economist|title=For fixed-income investors, hell is other bondholders|url=https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/08/29/for-fixed-income-investors-hell-is-other-bondholders|date=29 August 2020}}
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