(
/ˈhæŋki/) is a professor of
applied economics at the
Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore, Maryland. He is also a senior fellow and director of the Troubled Currencies Project at the libertarian
Cato Institute in Washington, DC,
[1][2] and co-director of the Johns Hopkins University's
Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise in
Baltimore, Maryland.
[3][4]
Hanke is known for his work as a
currency reformer[5] in emerging-market countries such as Albania,
[6] Argentina,
[7][8] Bulgaria,
[9][10] Bosnia and Herzegovina,
[11] Ecuador,
[12] Estonia,
[13][14] Indonesia,
[15] Jamaica,
[16] Kazakhstan,
[17] Lithuania,
[13] Montenegro,
[18] Russia,
[19][20][21] Venezuela,
[22] and Yugoslavia.
[23] He was a senior economist with President
Ronald Reagan's
Council of Economic Advisers from 1981 to 1982,
[24] and has served as an adviser to heads of state in countries throughout Asia, South America, Europe, and the Middle East.
[25] He is also known for his work on currency boards, dollarization, hyperinflation, water pricing and demand, benefit-cost analysis, privatization, and other topics in applied economics.