Nicholas Dungan on "Responsible Finance: Albert Gallatin and the Swiss-American Example"

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As US Secretary of the Treasury under Thomas Jefferson, the Geneva-born Albert Gallatin paid off nearly half the national debt of the United States. Is his Swiss-American example relevant to budget discipline, fiscal responsibility and sound government in our own day and age? Nicholas Dungan, author of Gallatin: America's Swiss Founding Father, revives this too easily forgotten figure from early American history and applies the lessons of Gallatin and Switzerland to America's contemporary financial and governmental challenges.

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Nicholas Dungan is nonresident Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council in Washington DC, a Senior Advisor to the Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques in Paris (IRIS) and a writer and independent commentator on international relations, politics and business. He is the author of the biography Gallatin: America’s Swiss Founding Father, published by New York University Press in autumn 2010. Nicholas Dungan was president of the New York-based French-American Foundation from 2005 to 2008. During his tenure, the French-American Foundation saw significant growth in its visibility, influence, programmatic offering and resources. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Chatham House Foundation, the US arm of the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House in London, and a former Associate Fellow of Chatham House, where he initiated and implemented a multi-year project, jointly with the Belgian Royal Institute of International Relations, on the changing role of non-state actors in international relations. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association in New York.

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