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Stephany Griffith-JonesEconomist
Date of Birth: 05.06.1947
Country:  USA |
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Biography of Stephanie Griffith-Jones
Stephanie Griffith-Jones is an economist specializing in international finance and development, with a focus on reforming the international financial system. Currently, Stephanie serves as the Financial Director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), an organization based at Columbia University. Prior to joining IPD, Stephanie was a professor and researcher at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. In addition to her academic work, Stephanie has held senior positions in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Commonwealth Secretariat in the UK.
Consulting and Research
Stephanie Griffith-Jones has served as a senior consultant for many governments in Eastern Europe and Latin America, as well as international financial organizations including the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and United Nations agencies such as UNDP and ECLAC. She began her career at the Central Bank of Chile and published one of her first articles, "The Growth of Multinational Banking, the Euro-currency market and their effects on developing countries," in the Journal of Development Studies in 1980. The article discussed the risks of excessive international banking credit for developing countries.
Publications and Achievements
Stephanie Griffith-Jones has authored numerous scholarly and journalistic articles and has written or edited at least 20 books on international finance and economic development. Her latest book, co-authored with Jose Antonio Ocampo and Joseph Stiglitz, is titled "Time for the Visible Hand, Lessons from the 2008 crisis" and was published in 2010. Stephanie has worked with Jose Antonio Ocampo since the 1990s, and together they developed the well-known concept of countercyclical reform in the international financial system, aimed at stabilizing capital flows and domestic private lending.
In addition, Griffith-Jones has been a strong advocate for the expansion of development banks at the national, regional, and multilateral levels. She is a laureate of the Association of Latin American Financial Institutions' award for the "best essay on Latin American international finance" and has received the prestigious "World Award" from Charles University and the Czech government.
