Gregory Makoff, PhD, is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and an expert on sovereign debt management. A former banker specializing in debt advice, liability management, and derivatives, he has also advised the US Department of the Treasury.
[A] superb account. -- David Skeel, University of Pennsylvania * Wall Street Journal * Default is a powerful, exciting and instructive book that clearly and surprisingly amusingly presents the 'lengthiest, messiest sovereign debt restructuring in history' (283). * ReVista Harvard Review of Latin America * This book is a pleasant surprise. * CHOICE connect * A scrupulously fair and comprehensive look at the trial of the century for sovereign debt. -- Robin Wigglesworth * Financial Times *