Prof Stephany Griffith-Jones

Financial Markets Director at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University

Professor Stephany Griffith-Jones is an economist researching development finance – in particular, national, regional and multilateral development banks – and the reform of national and international finance from a development perspective. She is the Financial Markets Program Director at Columbia University’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Senior Research Associate of the Overseas Development Institute and Emeritus Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.

She has published widely, having written or edited over 25 books and many more articles. Her book Time for a Visible Hand, co-edited with Jose Antonio Ocampo and Joseph Stiglitz, was published by OUP in 2010, and her most recent book The Future of Development Banks (also co-edited with Jose Antonio Ocampo) was published by OUP in 2018. She advises many international organisations, including the European Parliament, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, various UN agencies and several governments. She tweets  @stephanygj.