John Williamson (economist)

John Williamson ( born June 7, 1937 in Hereford, England ) is a British economist.

As 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. 1974 he married Denise R. de Souza, with whom he has two sons and a daughter. He was a lecturer at the University of York from 1963-1968, and then worked at numerous universities and institutes:

Since 1981 he is a senior scientist ( senior fellow ) at the Institute for International Finance (IIF ).

He also worked from 1968-1970 as an economic advisor to the British Treasury, was 1972 to 1974 consultant responsible for South Asia at the World Bank as Chief Economist at the IMF from 1996 to 1999 ( the time of the Asian crisis in 1997 /98). Last Williamson 2001 was project director for the Zedillo Report to the UN Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey in 2002.

Works

He is also the author of numerous published studies on the issue of international financial systems and indebtedness of 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)