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Dear Colleagues,

It is a delight to announce that Dr. Erwin Tiongson will be joining MSFS in
August as Professor in the Practice of International Affairs and
Concentration Chair for International Development.

Dr. Tiongson is currently a Senior Economist at the World Bank for Latin
America and the Caribbean Region. Prior to that he worked at the Bank for
the Europe and Central Asia Region. His country operational experience has
included Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYR
Macedonia, Georgia, Jamaica, Mexico, Moldova, Philippines, and Russia.

Dr Tiongson has been an Associate Professor at the Asian Institute of
Management in Metro Manila in the Philippines. He has also been an External
Research Fellow at the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration
(CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London, and-- no
stranger to Georgetown-- Dr. Tiongson is currently a Visiting Scholar at
the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) at Edmund A.
Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.

He is the author or co-author of numerous publication, including three
World Bank books*, Back to Work: Growing with Jobs in Europe and Central
Asia; The Crisis Hits Home: Stress Testing Households in Europe and Central
Asia; *and *Growth, Poverty and Inequality: Eastern Europe and the Former
Soviet Union.*

Dr. Tiongson holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Economics from The George
Washington University, an M.P.P. from the McCourt School of Public Policy
at Georgetown University, an M.A. in Economics from Fordham University, and
a B.A. in Philosophy from Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines.

Please join all of us in giving a very warm welcome to Dr. Tiongson to the
MSFS community!

AND . . . of course, a hugh THANK YOU to Michael Morfit for his dedicated
years of service as Concentration Chair! We truly appreciate all that you
have done for Georgetown, Michael!