17 Facts About Stephany Griffith-Jones

Stephany Griffith-Jones was born on Stepanka Novy Kafka on 5 June 1947 and is an economist specializing in international finance and development.

Stephany Griffith-Jones has held various positions throughout her career, including financial markets director at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue based at Columbia University, associate fellow at the Overseas Development Institute, and professorial fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University.

Stephany Griffith-Jones's career began in 1970 at the Central Bank of Chile, and she gained experience at Barclays Bank International in the UK before joining the Institute of Development Studies.

Stephany Griffith-Jones has served as a senior consultant to governments in Eastern Europe and Latin America, as well as to international agencies such as the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the European Commission, UNICEF, UNDP, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

Stephany Griffith-Jones was a member of the Warwick Commission on international financial reform.

Stephany Griffith-Jones was born in Prague and moved to Chile at the age of one.

Stephany Griffith-Jones received her primary and secondary education in Chile and graduated from the University of Chile.

Stephany Griffith-Jones adopted her current surname after marrying British mathematician Robert Griffith-Jones.

Stephany Griffith-Jones has contributed to research and policy suggestions on how to make the domestic and international financial system more stable so it can better serve the needs of inclusive economic development and the real economy.

Stephany Griffith-Jones was an early advocate of debt relief in Latin America and Sub-saharan Africa.

Stephany Griffith-Jones again warned of the risks of costly financial crises if sufficient measures such as capital controls were not implemented.

Stephany Griffith-Jones believed this would reduce the risk of major reversals of capital flows and the financial crises that result from them.

Stephany Griffith-Jones advocated expanded and less conditional IMF lending so countries do not have to unnecessarily adjust their economies, especially in the face of financial crises or other external shocks.

Stephany Griffith-Jones has worked on practical policy applications of these ideas.

Stephany Griffith-Jones has advocated reform of compensatory financing at the IMF in the face of external shocks to make it larger, speedier and with less conditionality.

Stephany Griffith-Jones has advocated the issue of GDP-linked bonds as a counter-cyclical mechanism to reduce the risk of financial crises.

Stephany Griffith-Jones has long supported the idea of counter-cyclical regulation.