Valerie Chang

Ms. Valerie Chang is Program Officer at John D.
& Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation.
She joined the Foundation in June 2003 after two years with the national office of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), where she was chief of staff for the Neighborhood Business Development Group (2001-2003), promoting economic development activities through LISC's national network.
Prior to this, Ms. Chang worked for nearly seven years with several leading private sector organizations, including Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. and Salomon Brothers, Inc. At Merrill Lynch (1996-1999), she was First Vice President, Emerging Markets and Fixed-Income Research, providing research on macroeconomic and political developments in global emerging markets.
She did similar work at Salomon Brothers, Inc. (1993-1996), where she was Vice President, Emerging Markets Research, responsible for research on Latin America.
Earlier in her career, she was an economist in the Division of International Finance at the Federal Reserve Board.
She has also worked for the US - China Business Council and the Hefei Polytechnical University in Anhui, People's Republic of China.
Ms. Valerie Chang has a BA in East Asian Studies from Yale University and an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies.