Desmond Lachman (born 1948), is a South African-born economist and finance author, who was a senior advisor (1984–1994) and then Deputy Director (1994–1996) at the International Monetary Fund, the Managing Director and Chief Emerging Market Strategist at Salomon Smith Barney (1996–2003), and a Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (2003–).
[1] In 2006, Paul Blustein of the Wall Street Journal said Lachman "distinguished himself amongst other analysts" in predicting that Argentina would be eventually forced to default on its debts.
[11] He is also regularly interviewed for his views on emerging markets in the financial media, such as in Barron's,[12] CNBC,[13] and the Economist.
[14] Lachman is interviewed on general economics for the wider non-financial national media such as for USA Today,[15] for BBC News,[16] and for NPR.
[17][18] In 2011, BBC's Newsnight, named Lachman's graph of 10-year euro yields as their "Chart of the Year", from submissions by leading economists.