Richard Hemming, Visiting Professor of the Practice of Public Policy
Office Location: 277 Rubenstein Hall
Office Phone: (919) 613-9313
Email Address: richard.hemming@duke.edu
Education:
Ph.D., University of Stirling (United Kingdom), 1977
MS, University of Stirling, United Kingdom, 1974
BA, University of Sussex, United Kingdom, 1972
Expertise:
International Public Finance
Debt and Macroeconomic Policy
International Taxation
Representative Publications (More Publications)
- R. Hemming, PPPs: Some Accounting and Reporting Issues”, in Public Investment and Public-Private Partnerships, edited by G. Schwartz, A. Corbacco and K. Funke (2008), Palgrave Macmillan .
- R. Hemming, D. Coady, T. Koranchelian and A. Mati, “Lebanon: Subsidy Reform Options”, Technical Assistance Reports (January, 2008), International Monetary Fund .
- R. Hemming, “Fiscal Discipline, Stabilization and Institutional Reform” (2008) (Proceedings of a G-20 Workshop on Fiscal Elements of Growth and Stability, Istanbul.) .
- R. Hemming,J. Shields and others, Manual on Fiscal Transparency (2007), International Monetary Fund (Revision.) .
- R. Hemming, B. Akitoby and G. Schwartz, “Public Investment and Public-Private Partnerships”, IMF Economic Issues, vol. 40 (2007) .
- R. Hemming with a staff team from the Fiscal Affairs Department, “Public-Private Partnerships, Government Guarantees, and Fiscal Risk”, IMF Special Issues Paper (2006), International Monetary Fund .
Bio/Profile
Richard Hemming is an economist and fiscal policy expert with wide-ranging industrial and developing country expertise. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Duke Center for International Development and a consultant for the World Bank. He retired from the International Monetary Fund in August 2008, where he ended a 24-year career as Deputy Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department.
In recent years, Richard has worked on a variety of topics, including the fiscal consequences of financial globalization, fiscal sustainability, fiscal vulnerability and financial crises, fiscal responsibility frameworks (including transparency and rules), accounting and reporting standards, public investment, and public-private partnerships.
Prior to joining the IMF, Richard worked at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Before that, he was a researcher at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London and a university lecturer in the United Kingdom and Australia.
A British national, Richard has a BA from Sussex University and an MSc. and Ph.D. from Stirling University. He has published widely on tax, social security, public expenditure, and other fiscal issues.