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Albert (Bert) Keidel, III 5007 Rodman Road Bethesda, MD 20816-1761, USA, Tel.: +1 (301)263-9007 Still Active Web Page: www.CarnegieE/Keidel; Email: akeidel@keidel.us Summary Albert Keidel is a development economist specializing in East Asia, with a focus on China. He is a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States. He previously was Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he covered China economic issues and related U.S. policy. Before joining Carnegie in 2004, he was in the U.S. Treasury Department as Acting Director and Deputy Director of the Office of East Asian Nations, and before that as Treasury’s China Desk Officer. Before joining Treasury in 2001, he covered China economic trends, system reforms, poverty, and country risk as a fixed-term Senior Economist in the World Bank office in Beijing (1997-2000). He has worked in China, Japan, and Korea and has taught graduate economics courses on China, Japan and development economics, including over the past 20 years at John Hopkins University SAIS, Georgetown University, and George Washington University. He currently teaches a graduate course on Chinas economy in Georgetown Universitys School of Public Policy. He received a BA in International Affairs from Princeton and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard, with a post-doctoral fellowship year in the Faculty of Economics at Tokyo National University (using the Japanese language). He has strong Chinese (Mandarin) language skills. Past work has covered China’s macroeconomic trends and cycles, its statistical system, measures of GDP (both official and PPP), poverty and regional inequality, balance of payments and exchange rate issues, local fiscal conditions, rural economic developments, including animal husbandry and grassland degradation issues, and, for the U.S. Treasury Department, a wide range of both fundamental and short-term bilateral U.S.-China issues. Thanks to a generous two-year p