Paul Volcker was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1979-87 and former Undersecretary of the Department of the Treasury and President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York . He is Professor Emeritus of International Economic Policy, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University . 

He is a co-author of Changing Fortunes: The World’s Money and the Threat to American Leadership and The United States and Japan: Cooperative Leadership for Peace and Global Prosperity. He is the author of Triumph of Central Banking.