1. John Phillip Lipsky was born on February 19,1947 and is an American economist.
13 Facts About John Lipsky
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John Lipsky was the acting managing director of the International Monetary Fund from May to July 2011.
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John Lipsky retired from the IMF in November 2011 and is currently a distinguished visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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John Lipsky's great-grandfather, Henry Smulekoff, was a Ukrainian immigrant who opened a furniture store on Cedar Rapids' May's Island in 1890.
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John Lipsky was the middle child of three born to Abbott and Joan Miller John Lipsky.
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John Lipsky's mother was a lawyer who served as a member of the Iowa House of Representatives and as the chair of the Iowa Council on Human Services.
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On graduation from Stanford, John Lipsky joined the International Monetary Fund, where he helped manage the Fund's exchange rate surveillance procedure.
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John Lipsky returned to New York in 1994, when appointed the bank's chief economist and a managing director, with an office next to Henry Kaufman.
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John Lipsky was then appointed to an operation role, becoming vice chairman of JPMorgan Investment Bank.
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On May 12,2011, John Lipsky announced that he would leave his post at the end of his term on August 31,2011, declining the option to serve for a second term.
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John Lipsky serves on the board of directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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John Lipsky now teaches at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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John Lipsky was credited with introducing Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos to the sometime chairman of Oracle, Donald Lucas.