David Leblang is Ambassador Henry J. and Mrs. Marion R. Taylor Professor of Politics of politics at the University of Virginia and is a faculty associate at the Miller Center. He is also a professor of public policy at the University’s Batten School for Leadership and Public Policy, where he is director of the Global Policy Center. A specialist in political economy, Leblang has served as a consultant to the International Monetary Fund, the Directorate of Finance and Economics of the European Commission, and the Department of Defense. He is co-author of Democratic Politics and Financial Markets: Pricing Politics (2006) and more than thirty journal articles in publications including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, Economics and Politics, and the Journal of International Money and Finance. He has received research support from the National Science Foundation