Ulrich Volz is a Senior Researcher at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) where he currently directs a research project on international capital flows. He also teaches courses in International Finance and International Monetary Relations at Freie Universität Berlin and on the Chinese Economy at the University of Leipzig. In the academic year 2011-2012 he was a Visiting Professor at Peking University’s School of Economics. He has held other visiting positions at the University of Oxford, the University of Birmingham, the European Central Bank, and Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo. Ulrich was a Fox International Fellow and Max Kade Scholar at Yale University, and also worked at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Central Bank. Ulrich is the editor or co-editor of several books, including Towards Monetary and Financial Integration in East Asia (Edward Elgar Publishing, May 2009), Regional and Global Liquidity Arrangements (DIE, October 2010), Regional Integration, Economic Development and Global Governance (Edward Elgar Publishing, July 2011), and Financial Stability in Emerging Markets: Dealing with Global Liquidity (DIE, April 2012). He is the author of Prospects for Monetary Cooperation and Integration in East Asia, published by the MIT Press in June 2010.