David Dollar is a Senior Fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. Prior to joining Brookings, Dollar was the U.S. Treasury’s Economic and Financial Emissary to China, based in the U.S. embassy in Beijing (2009-2013). In that capacity he facilitated the macroeconomic and financial policy dialogue between U.S. and Chinese policy-makers. Prior to joining Treasury Dollar worked 20 years for the World Bank.