Professor Stephany Griffith-Jones - Economist
Welcome to the website of Professor Stephany Griffith Jones (BA Chile, PhD Cambridge), who is currently Financial Markets Program Director at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University
An economist working on global capital flows, with special reference to flows to emerging markets; macro-economic management of capital flows in Latin America, Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa; proposals for international measures to diminish volatility of capital flows and reduce likelihood of currency crises; analysis of national and international capital markets. Proposals for international financial reform
For a more complete biography, please see my C.V. or the wikipedia page about me.
New policy paper on Shifting Europe from austerity to growth: a proposed investment programme for 2012-2015
I participated in a press conference and Hearings in European Parliament on Financial Transaction Taxes
Derivatives and hedge funds; sovereign wealth funds; the sub-prime crisis and its' impact on developing countries; the impact of Basel II on developing countries.
I presented on the Governance of Global Financial Regulation to Commonwealth Finance Ministers and Central bank Governors at their Annual meeting
I was one of the Commissioners of the Warwick Report on Financial Regulation, which has received lots of press coverage.
My article on the Tobin Tax was recently published in the Guardian
New Book -Time for a Visible Hand: Lessons from the World Financial Crisis by Griffith-Jones, Ocampo and Stiglitz - now available on OUP and Amazon