Zacharie Quiviger is a first-year Ph.D. student in political science, majoring in international relations. His research interests include international political economy, particularly monetary politics, international finance, and the future of the U.S. dollar.
Mr. Quiviger earned a bachelor of commerce in economics with honors from McGill University and a master of philosophy in politics and international studies from the University of Cambridge. His master’s thesis—The Federal Reserve, Access to Swap Lines in the Great Recession, and the Role of Global Lender of Last Resort—challenges the Federal Reserve’s stated principles of swap line extension, repositioning the program as an infrastructure for defending the dollar system. He has worked as a research assistant at the Bank of Canada and as a research associate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo under Jonathan Weigel (Berkeley), Augustin Bergeron (Harvard), and James Robinson (Chicago). He is currently a researcher for the Rethinking Developmentalism for Climate and Social Justice (REDCAJU) project, led by Daniela Gabor (SOAS–London) and Ndongo Samba Sylla (IDEAs), where he focuses on viable macrofinancial paths for decarbonization and energy generation in Africa.
