John Lipsky is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced international Studies (SAIS), and is the Chair of the Hopkins Nanjing Council. Before joining SAIS, he served as First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 2006-2011. Previously, he served as Vice Chairman of JPMorgan Investment Bank, Chief Economist of JPMorgan Chase, Chief Economist and Director of Research of Chase Manhattan Bank, and Chief Economist of Salomon Brothers.

Currently, Lipsky is Co-Chair of the Aspen Institute's Program on the World Economy, and is the Executive Committee Vice-Chair of the Center for Global Development. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research, on the Advisory Board of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), and as a Director of the American Council on Germany and of the Krymov Foundation. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Lipsky received his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.