Career
Stephany Griffith-Jones is executive director, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, at Columbia University in New York, and professorial fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University and holds the position of deputy director of International Finance at the Commonwealth Secretariat. She started her career in 1970 at the Central Bank of Chile. Before joining the Institute of Development Studies, she worked at Barclays Bank International in the UK. She has acted as senior consultant to governments in Eastern Europe and Latin America and to many international agencies, including the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the EU and UNCTAD. She worked at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the UN (UN-DESA), coordinating with José Antonio Ocampo and Jan Kregel the World Economic and Social Survey, on Financing for Development. She has written widely on international finance and macroeconomic policies, especially in relation to Latin American and East European economies. One of her recent books is From Capital Surges to Drought: Seeking Stability for Emerging Economies (co-authored by Ricardo Ffrench-Davis, 2004). Major Research Activity: - Directed DFID funded project on Financial Vulnerability in Asia; - Ford Foundation Project on Enhancing stable private flows to developing countries; - Directed projects on Basle 2, and developing countries (DFID funding); - Co-directed (with CEPAL) WIDER project on new capital flows to developing countries after the Asian crisis; - Directed project on monitoring financial architecture from a developing country perspective (Ford/DFID); - Coordinated SIDA/DANIDA/Oxfam project on supply side of capital flows; - Coordinated and co-directed a research project with developing country senior colleagues at UN WIDER on short-term capital flows and economic crises; - Coordinated and directed project on foreign capital inflows into transition economies, with particular reference to Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, EC-ODA funded; - Directed project on regulating global financial flows, with special emphasis on securities and flows to developing countries, funded by Swedish SIDA; - Co-directed project on private flows to Latin America at CEPAL, funded by IDRC; - Directed EC-ODA funded project on Financial Sector Reform and Macro-Economic Policies in Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary; - Participated in IDRC research project on Cross-Conditionality and Banking Regulations; - Directed an international project on debt crisis management as well as bargaining on debt and adjustment, which involved senior Latin American colleagues (IDRC/ESRC funded); - Researcher and later director of international research project on The Impact of World Prices on Development, funded by the Kuwait and OPEC Fund; - Researcher on transnationalisation project funded by Swedish SAREC.