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Rachel Ziemba

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Rachel Ziemba is RGE Monitor's lead analyst for oil exporting economies (Russia, GCC etc) and China. She has a particular interest in the strategies of sovereign wealth funds, their impact on financial markets and energy supply risks. She has an AB from the University of Chicago and an M Phil in International Relations (International Political Economy) from St Antony’s College, Oxford University.

Before joining RGEMonitor.com, she worked for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in Cairo and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Ottawa. She has been a frequent contributor to Wilmott Magazine on emerging market issues and investment strategies. Her book Scenarios for Risk Management and Global Investment Strategies (co-written with William T. Ziemba) was released by Wiley in January 2008.


Recent Articles by Rachel Ziemba

What is China's Exit Strategy?
November 16th, 2009

Chinese Monetary Policy: Little Effect on Overcapacities, and Risks of Blowing a Property Bubble
October 21st, 2009

Are Sovereign Funds Back? A Roundup
October 8th, 2009

CNBC Squawk Box Interviews with RGE's Rachel Ziemba, Jim Rogers and others Discussing China at 60
October 7th, 2009

Chinese Credit Policy: Is Fine-Tuning Prompting Too Much of a Property Boom?
September 29th, 2009

RGE Monitor - The G20’s Crowded Agenda
September 23rd, 2009

The July TIC Data: In for the Long Term?
September 16th, 2009

What do Istithmar’s Troubles Signal for other Sovereign Investors?
September 14th, 2009

Ripples of 9/11 Continue 8 Years On
September 11th, 2009

RGE Monitor - Is Resource Nationalism Back?
September 9th, 2009

OPEC and the Oil Market
September 4th, 2009

The China Effect
August 26th, 2009

How Much Do the Major Sovereign Wealth Funds Manage?
August 3rd, 2009

What’s on the Table at the U.S. China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED)?
July 24th, 2009

May TIC Data: Still Buying U.S. Assets, but Just the Liquid Ones
July 17th, 2009

Chinese Reserves: Boiling Over Again?
July 15th, 2009

China’s GDP Growth and Electricity Contraction: Not a Contradiction After All?
July 15th, 2009

RGE Monitor - China Economic Outlook: Q2 2009 Update
July 15th, 2009

GCC Sovereigns: A Little Better Off
July 9th, 2009

Will the Global Warming Bill Cool the Global Economy?
July 1st, 2009

Russia's Reserve Currency Idea
June 7th, 2009

Another Blow To The GCC Monetary Union: the UAE Pulls Out
May 20th, 2009

RGE Monitor – Are Commodity Prices Getting Ahead of Fundamentals?
May 20th, 2009

Brazil and China: Moves Towards a New Economic order?
May 18th, 2009

Will a 'Bad Bank' Provide A Solution To Kuwait's Financial Woes?
May 17th, 2009

Stress-testing Islamic Finance
May 10th, 2009

China's Sluggish Q1 Reserve Growth
April 12th, 2009

GCC sovereigns Resort to the Bond Market
March 31st, 2009

Aabar-Daimler: Abu Dhabi makes a bid for the auto sector?
March 22nd, 2009

Citi and Sovereign Funds: A Post-Mortem
March 17th, 2009

OPEC Cuts: Will They or Won’t They? A Postmortem
March 15th, 2009

The Re-Emergence of Global Protectionism: A Newer Version of Smoot-Hawley?
March 9th, 2009

How Severely Will Asia Be Affected By the Global Recession?
March 8th, 2009

What Role Could Bonds Have in the Quest for New Sources of Finance in the GCC?
March 6th, 2009

Gulf Liquidity: Shifting Petrodollar Assets
March 4th, 2009

How Worried Should We Be About Dubai? Update: Is the Bailout Underway?
February 22nd, 2009

How Are GCC (and Other) Sovereign Funds Faring? An Update
February 21st, 2009

China’s resource buys
February 21st, 2009

Meeting the U.S. Financing Needs
February 18th, 2009

The December TIC data...
February 18th, 2009

Will China Be the First To Recover?
February 17th, 2009

Russia and Kazakhstan: A Tale of Two Devaluations
February 8th, 2009

Davos Debate: Reshaping the Future of the Global Financial System
January 28th, 2009

Canadian 2009 Budget: How Much Will New Spending Stimulate the Canadian Economy?
January 26th, 2009

Parsing the Chinese Hard Landing
January 25th, 2009

Obama's Presidential Honeymoon Faces Daunting Economic and Geo-Political Tasks
January 22nd, 2009

GCC Investments: A Change of Fortune
January 14th, 2009

Saudi 2009 Budget: Deficit -Bound
December 29th, 2008

Eight Asian Predictions for the Year of the Ox
December 21st, 2008

Raiding The Sovereign Rainy Day Fund
December 16th, 2008

A Wakeup Call for the New Foreign Policy Team?
December 3rd, 2008

Canada’s fiscal politics: The Plot Thickens
December 3rd, 2008

Can Russia Avoid a Hard Landing?
November 28th, 2008

Sovereign Wealth Funds: Tallying the Losses (Again)
November 26th, 2008

Obama’s Asian Priorities
November 18th, 2008

More on the Chinese fiscal stimulus
November 15th, 2008

Qatar and Abu Dhabi to Barclays Rescue: Latest Developments in the World of Sovereign Wealth
November 2nd, 2008

Can OPEC Stem the Downward trend?
October 23rd, 2008

China’s Reserve Growth: Still Large, and Rather Volatile
October 21st, 2008

Whither the Oil Price?
October 12th, 2008

Russia’s bailout package just keeps getting bigger
October 8th, 2008

Fallout of the Global Financial Turmoil in the Middle East
September 23rd, 2008

SWF Watch: Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC)
September 22nd, 2008

Russia: In Crisis-mode
September 18th, 2008

Sidelined sovereign wealth…
September 17th, 2008

Sovereign funds investing in energy? Maybe not through indices?
September 12th, 2008

Is there an oil price floor and where is it?
September 11th, 2008

German Government and Business Responses to Sovereign Wealth
September 2nd, 2008

US Oil Production and Hurricanes: Insecurity of Demand Trumps Insecurity of Supply?
August 30th, 2008

One Year Later, Still Crunch Time
August 22nd, 2008

GCC Sovereign Wealth and Islamic Finance
August 15th, 2008

Rise of the Chinese consumer?
August 14th, 2008

Conflict in Georgia: Economic and Financial Fallout
August 11th, 2008

As 08.08.08 approaches…
August 7th, 2008

Is China Suffering an Olympic Shock?
August 5th, 2008

GE/Mubadala: More Partnership for Sovereign Wealth Funds
July 22nd, 2008

Who's Going to Bail Out the Banks?
July 21st, 2008

Have We Passed the Turning point for Oil?
July 18th, 2008

Every Barrel Now Counts: What Prospects for more oil Supplies?
July 2nd, 2008

Sovereign Wealth Fund Watch: US Taxation and Banking Oversight
June 17th, 2008

Should Canada Save More of Its Oil Windfall?
June 16th, 2008

Still Petro-dollars
June 9th, 2008

More about the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA)
June 6th, 2008

Why is Canada Growing More Slowly Than the U.S.?
June 5th, 2008

Editor's Pick: Politics Pressuring the Renminbi?
May 30th, 2008

Asia, $130 oil and subsidies
May 23rd, 2008

Brazil, OPEC and Oil Fundamentals
May 12th, 2008

The Crowded Sovereign Wealth Universe
May 8th, 2008

Russia Goes Global
May 5th, 2008

The New Saudi Investment Vehicle
April 28th, 2008

Tracking GCC Savings and Borrowings
April 27th, 2008

Globalization of the Natural Gas Market?
April 24th, 2008

New CFIUS Regulations: How Significant For Sovereign Investors?
April 22nd, 2008

Canadian Dollar and Oil: No Longer So Close
April 17th, 2008

Editor's Pick: Do Investors Fight the Last War?
April 14th, 2008

Petrodollar Recycling: Focus on the Banks
April 9th, 2008

How Exposed is Canada to the US Economy?
April 8th, 2008

Are Sovereign Funds Buying Into Energy?
April 7th, 2008

Sovereign Wealth Funds Investing in Africa: A Part of Growing South-South Investment
April 3rd, 2008

So How Large Are Sovereign Wealth Funds?
April 2nd, 2008

Editor's Pick: Rising Tigers of the Chinese Banking Sector
March 31st, 2008

Petrodollars: How to Spend It
March 20th, 2008

The US, Abu Dhabi and Singapore Get in a Room...
March 20th, 2008

Sovereign Funds: The writing on the wall...
March 18th, 2008

Still Buying Treasuries
March 17th, 2008

Bear: A Road Not Taken
March 17th, 2008

Iran: Follow the (oil) money
March 13th, 2008

Sovereign Wealth Fund Watch: US Taxation and Banking Oversight
March 6th, 2008

SWF Watch: Norway: Upping EM and Property Exposure
March 4th, 2008

Responding to the World of Sovereign Wealth
February 29th, 2008

Sovereign Wealth Funds as Development Funders
February 25th, 2008

With $100 Oil, How Are Asian Countries Responding?
February 20th, 2008

Tracking State Holding Companies and Sovereign Investors of the UAE
February 19th, 2008

President Bush's African Trip
February 18th, 2008

Editor's Pick: End of A North American Trade Era
February 15th, 2008

Editor's Pick: Chinese Commodity Hunting
February 15th, 2008

So, What Are Sovereign Wealth Funds Targeting?: Assessing Benchmarks
February 3rd, 2008

Loonie Prospects
January 31st, 2008

More Transparency for Sovereign Funds?
January 26th, 2008

The Sovereign Wealth Economic Forum… A New Entrant
January 23rd, 2008

Sovereign Wealth to the Rescue? (Again)
January 15th, 2008

Reassessing Risks in 2008
January 10th, 2008

Editor's Pick: Housing Finance in Asia
January 7th, 2008

A Race Developing Among SWFs...
January 2nd, 2008

Are All Sovereign Investors Becoming More Activist?
December 19th, 2007

How Is China Funding the Chinese Investment Corporation (CIC)?
December 5th, 2007

Editor's Pick: Will China Follow Japan?
November 26th, 2007

Editor's Pick: Asian National Oil Companies
November 21st, 2007

SWF Watch: The Norwegian Model
November 20th, 2007

Chinese Profit Sustainability
November 9th, 2007

A War Chest to Fend Off Sovereign Wealth Funds?
November 8th, 2007

Editor's Pick: Canada as an Energy Superpower?
November 5th, 2007

Editor's Pick: Persistent Russian Inflation
October 25th, 2007

Editor's Pick: A Housing-Led Recession for Japan?
October 22nd, 2007

SWF Watch: Libya Joins the Party
October 18th, 2007

Responses to Sovereign Wealth Funds: Are 'Draconian' Measures on the Way?
October 17th, 2007

Editor Pick: Where will Japanese (and Chinese) Financial Assets Be Deployed?
October 11th, 2007

Editor Pick: Hong Kong's Financial Center and Ties with the Mainland
October 9th, 2007

Editor Pick: How Might China Rebalance?
October 8th, 2007

Kazakhstan's Vulnerabilities
October 4th, 2007

Editor Pick: How Commercial are National Oil Companies?
September 28th, 2007

Editor Pick: Asian Capital flows
September 25th, 2007

Editor Roundup: Implications of Loonie at Parity
September 20th, 2007

Editor Pick: Not Dutch Disease, China Syndrome in Canada
August 16th, 2007

Editor Pick: How is Asia Weathering the Subprime Crisis?
August 15th, 2007

Editor Pick: More Transparency for Sovereign Wealth Funds?
August 8th, 2007

Editor Pick: IMF on Japan's Capital Flows and Monetary Policy
August 7th, 2007

Editor Pick: China in Global Trade
August 6th, 2007

Editor Pick: China overheating? How vulnerable to a credit crunch?
August 3rd, 2007

Editor Pick: Temasek on the Prowl
August 2nd, 2007

Editor Pick: OPEC Bulletin
July 31st, 2007

Editor Pick: More Projections on China's Investment Company
July 31st, 2007

Editor Pick: China's Low Consumption
July 27th, 2007

Editor Pick: Summer Currency Policy Wars Heating Up?
July 26th, 2007

Editor Pick: Waiting for the Yen
July 24th, 2007

Editor Pick: Oil at $100/barrel?
July 23rd, 2007

Editor Pick: Easy Money in Asia
July 20th, 2007

Editor Pick: How Important is OPEC?
July 17th, 2007

Editor Pick: If the Yuan Revalues, Will Other Asian Currencies Follow?
July 16th, 2007

Editor Pick: Ukraine, Turkmenistan and CIS Pipeline Politics
July 16th, 2007

Editor Pick: What Will China's Investment Company Buy?
July 13th, 2007

Editor Pick: Does China or the US Present the Biggest Risk to Asian Growth?
June 27th, 2007

Editor Pick: Role of the Euro in Recycling Oil Revenues
June 26th, 2007

Editor Pick: Asian Repatriation and Bond Market
June 20th, 2007

Editor Pick: Canadian Inflation and Sticky Prices
June 15th, 2007

Editor Pick: Asia's Productivity Growth
June 13th, 2007

Editor Pick: Credit Card Debt Crises in East Asia
June 11th, 2007

Editor Pick: Capital Flows from Emerging Markets and the Yield Quest
June 7th, 2007

Editor Pick: Inflation in Asia
June 5th, 2007

Editor Pick: What have we learned about the Asian Financial Crisis?
May 28th, 2007

Editor Pick: Protectionism and the U.S. Dollar
May 16th, 2007

Editor Pick: China's African Ties
May 15th, 2007

Editor Pick: IMF on Middle East and Central Asia
May 14th, 2007

Editor Pick: Investment in Latin America
May 4th, 2007

Editor Pick: China's Energy Demands
May 3rd, 2007

Editor Pick: Inflows to Central Asia
May 2nd, 2007

Editor Pick: Oil Funds
April 25th, 2007

Editor Pick: Chinese Reserve Growth
April 24th, 2007

Editor Pick: Central Bank of Kuwait's Foreign Assets Jumped in March
April 23rd, 2007

Editor Pick: Chinese Corporate Tax Changes
April 19th, 2007

Editor Pick : Arab Economies
April 19th, 2007

Editor Pick: IMF on African Bond Markets
April 16th, 2007

Editor Pick: What to expect from the G7
April 13th, 2007

Editor Pick: Arab Competitiveness
April 10th, 2007

Editor Pick: RMB Appreciation and China's Trade Balance
March 29th, 2007

Editor Pick: Yergin on Energy Security
March 23rd, 2007

Editor Pick: Asia's Century?
March 22nd, 2007

Editor Pick: Chinese Corporate Bonds
March 19th, 2007

Editor Pick: Asian Currencies
March 14th, 2007

Editor Pick: OPEC's Challenging Year
March 13th, 2007

Editor Pick: Japanese and Chinese Monetary Policy
March 7th, 2007

Editor Pick: National Oil Companies
March 2nd, 2007

Editor Pick: South African Assets
February 28th, 2007

Editor Pick: African Equity Markets
February 21st, 2007

Editor Pick - Is Mexico's Economy Unravelling?
February 14th, 2007

Editor Pick - Geopolitical Risks
February 12th, 2007

Editor Pick - Japanese Forex Intervention
February 9th, 2007

Editor Pick - Carol Wise on Mexico
February 7th, 2007

Editor Pick - PINR on China's Approach in Africa
February 6th, 2007