IDS Emeritus Fellow, Stephany Griffith-Jones, has been appointed Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Chile starting from 25 January 2024. A well-known economist, specialising in international finance and development, Stephany Griffith-Jones, was first appointed to the board of the Chilean Central Bank in 2022 and was only the third woman to do so in the Bank’s nearly one-hundred-year history. She will exercise her new role as Deputy Governor in one of the most important economic actors in Latin America until December 24, 2025.
Expert on development, economics and finance
While Professorial Fellow at IDS Stephany published extensively on development economics, finance and green investment, as well as leading on several important programmes including Business and Development Centre and Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development.
Her appointment comes at an important time with the Central Bank speeding up the pace of interest rate cuts after the recent currency rebound within the Chilean markets.
Commenting on the new appointment, Stephany Griffiths-Jones, said:
“I am deeply honoured by my appointment as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Chile. I hope I can contribute to making monetary policy help achieve low inflation and encourage higher and more equitable growth in Chile”.
Before joining the Board of the Central Bank of Chile, Stephany Griffith-Jones was director of financial markets at the Economic Policy Dialogue Initiative at Columbia University. She is also a distinguished member of the Climate Works Foundation of California.
The Central Bank highlighted that Deputy Governor Griffith-Jones has written and collaborated “on more than twenty-five books and numerous articles in academic journals and newspapers.” She has also served as a senior advisor to several international organisations, such as the European Commission, the European Parliament, the World Bank, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Inter-American Development Bank and several UN agencies, such as ECLAC, DESA and UNDP.
