Stuart P. M. Mackintosh is Executive Director of the Group of Thirty (www.g30.org), an influential international economic and financial think tank comprised of the most senior figures in central banking, finance, and academia. In 2016 he was elected by his peers as President of the National Association of Business Economics, the leading US organization of professional economists. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Newcastle University, UK. He has a deep and broad international professional network across the US and globally and he is the author of The Redesign of the Global Financial Architecture (2016; 2nd ed. 2021). www.stuartmackintoshauthor.com