Julian Watrous

Julian Watrous is a Global China Research Fellow at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center. He is a JD candidate at Yale Law School with an interest international law and administrative law. His academic research focuses on international finance and debt policy, central banking, and international economic law. He serves as an editor of Yale Journal of International Law.

Before law school, Julian completed an MSc, graduating with distinction, at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he wrote a thesis on bilateral sovereign bailouts and IMF conditionality.

Julian previously spent two years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Markets Group, where he worked on teams focused on international markets and foreign central banks. Before that, he spent two years in the International Affairs office of the US Treasury Department as a junior fellow, where he worked in the Western Hemisphere office as well as the Treasury’s International Climate Task Force. He received a BA with honors from Stanford University in 2019.