John Williamson (economist)
John Williamson (born June 7, 1937 in Hereford , England ) is a British economist.
The son of AH Williamson and Eileen Williamson, he studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at Princeton University until 1963. In 1974, he married Denise R. de Souza, with whom he has two sons and a daughter. From 1963 to 1968 he lectured at the University of York and then worked at numerous universities and institutes:
- 1962-63 Princeton University
- 1963–68 University of York
- 1967-80 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1970-77 University of Warwick
- 1978–81 Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
Since 1981 he has been a senior fellow at the Institute for International Finance (IIF).
He also worked from 1968 to 1970 as an economic advisor for the British Treasury, from 1972 to 1974 an advisor at the IMF and from 1996 to 1999 responsible for South Asia at the World Bank as Chief Economist (at the time of the Asian crisis 1997/98). Most recently, Williamson was project director for the Zedillo Report at the UN Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey in 2001.
Works
In addition, he is the author of numerous published studies on the topics of international financial systems and debt in developing countries :
- Delivering on Debt Relief: From IMF Gold to a New Aid Architecture (2002)
- Exchange Rate Regimes for Emerging Markets: Reviving the Intermediate Option (2000)
- The Crawling Band as an Exchange Rate Regime (1996)
- What Role for Currency Boards? (1995)
- Estimating Equilibrium Exchange Rates (1994)
- The Political Economy of Policy Reform (1993)
- Economic Consequences of Soviet Disintegration (1993)
- Trade and Payments After Soviet Disintegration (1992)
- From Soviet Disunion to Eastern Economic Community? with Oleh Havrylyshyn (1991)
- Currency Convertibility in Eastern Europe (1991)
- Latin American Adjustment: How Much Has Happened? (1990)
- Targets and Indicators: A Blueprint for the International Coordination of Economic Policy with Marcus Miller (1987)
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about John Williamson in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Williamson, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hereford , England |