Weekend Long Read: David Dollar — An Outstanding Economist Who Believed in Fact-Based Dialogue

David Dollar, who passed away on Oct. 6, was the World Bank’s country director for China and Mongolia from 2004 to 2009. He held several other World Bank positions, including director of development policy in its Development Economics Department.

After leaving the World Bank, he became the U.S. Treasury’s economic and financial emissary to China from 2009 to 2013, during which time he was central to the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. At the time of his death from complications of viral pneumonia, he was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., focusing on China’s economy and U.S.-China economic relations.