Global Governance for Financial Stability and Development

About the Authors

José Antonio Ocampo
Professor of International and Public Affairs
School of International and Public Affairs
Columbia University

Jose Antonio Ocampo is Co-President of IPD, Professor of Professional Practice in the School of International and Public Affairs, and Fellow of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Prior to his appointment at Columbia, Professor Ocampo served as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, and head of UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), as Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and has held a number of high-level posts in the Government of Colombia, including Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Director of the National Planning Department, and Minister of Agriculture . Professor Ocampo is author or editor of over 30 books and has published over 200 scholarly articles on macroeconomic theory and policy, international financial issues, economic development, international trade, and Colombian and Latin American economic history.

Stephany Griffith-Jones
Financial Markets Program Director
Initiative for Policy Dialogue

Stephany Griffith-Jones is Financial Markets Program Director at IPD, as well as an economist whose areas of expertise include global capital flows to emerging markets and international financial reform; macro-economic management of capital flows in Latin America, Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa; and international financial reform with special emphasis on regulation (Basel II, hedge funds and derivatives). Prior to joining IPD, Professor Griffith-Jones was Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at University of Sussex and served as Senior Official at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the Economic Commission of Latin America (ECLAC), and as Head of International Finance at the Commonwealth Secretariat. 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, and the United Nations (especially UNDP and ECLAC). She began her career at the Central Bank of Chile and since then has published many articles and books including International Finance and Development with Jose Antonio Ocampo and Jan Kregel. She received the Association of Latin American Financial Institutions prize for best essay on Latin America's international finance.