James Rowe

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ABOUT JAMES ROWE

I spent more than 35 years as a writer and editor for the Washington Post before taking an early retirement buyout in 2006, after which I joined the International Monetary Fund as senior editor of the economic quarterly Finance & Development, I left at the end of 2017 and became an editorial consultant to the chief economist for the Middle East and North Africa at the world Bank. I have subsequently added consultancies with the South Asia department and the global forecasting unit. I continue my activities on behalf of Argentine journalism. mainly through the journalists\' organization Foro de Periodismo Argentino (Fopea).Most of my professional life was spent at The Washington Post (from 1971 until 2006). I was an international and domestic economics writer from 1971 until 1978; New York financial correspondent from from 1979 through 1981; international and domestic economics correspondent from 1982 until 1987 (when the Latin American debt crisis spawned my long association with that continent); assistant National Editor from 1987 until and Early Sunday editor from until 2006. I took an early retirement buyout in June 2006 and joined the IMF the following September. Since 2004 I have been involved with South American journalism, primarily in Argentina as a member of Fopea, which seeks to elevate the journalistic ethical standards in Argentina and monitor freedom of expression issues. On behalf of Fopea I have made presentations around the country on a variety of journalism-related topics. I have also presented seminars in Uruguay, Chile and Paraguay. I was a member of the Board of Directors of the World Press Institute, which brings 10 foreign journalists to the United States each year for immersion in U.S. culture, from June 1991 until January 2012. For more than two decades (19••••07) I was the adviser to the student newspaper, the Tower, at the Catholic University of America.Specialties: Reporting, writing and editing; economics writing, public speaking on journalism and related topics.