The European Investment Bank and SMEs

About the Authors

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.

Judith Tyson

Pietro Calice
Senior Policy Advisor
Christian Aid