Grimes Unveils New Report: ‘Leading by Design’
William Grimes, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, is the co-author of a new GDP Center report ‘Leading by Design: Asian Lessons for Monitoring Global Financial Stability,’ the first comprehensive study of economic surveillance by the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO), outlining the benefits of its regional surveillance activities and drawing lessons for other regional financing arrangements (RFAs).
Grimes and GDP Center Exec. Director William Kring presented the report on December 4, 2023, in Tokyo at the ASEAN+3 Economic Cooperation and Financial Stability Forum in a session titled, ‘Soaring Debt and Financial Stress: Implications for ASEAN+3’s Financial Stability.’ 
The forum was opened by International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, the Director of the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office, the President of the Asian Development Bank and the Vice Minister of Finance and International Affairs from the Japan Ministry of Finance.
Professor William Grimes has taught at Boston University since 1996. He previously served as the Pardee School’s Dean for Academic Affairs, chair of the Department of International Relations, and the first director of the BU Center for the Study of Asia. He is the author of, amongst others, Currency and Contest in East Asia (2008) and Unmaking the Japanese Miracle (2001). Read more about Professor Grimes on his faculty profile.