Anya Schiffrin is codirector of the media program at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. She was the editor in chief of the Istanbul-based daily the Turkish Times,a stringer for Reuters in Barcelona, senior financial writer at the Industry Standardin New York and bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires in Amsterdam and Hanoi.Amer Bisat is a hedge fund manager focusing on emerging-markets bonds and was previously a portfolio manager at UBS and Morgan Stanley and chief emerging-markets economist at Salomon Brothers in Europe. He has also been a senior economist at the IMF, where he worked on the economics of Russia, Egypt, and Cameroon, and he has published widely… on growth, the financial sector, and Middle East economics.