Dr Patrick Njoroge

Dr Patrick Njoroge was appointed Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya in June 2015. He holds a PhD in Economics from Yale University, USA, and a master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Economics from the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Prior to joining the Central Bank, Dr Njoroge had a long career, spanning 20 years, at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in Washington, D.C., USA. At the IMF, he was advisor to the IMF Deputy Managing Director from December 2012.

He also served as Deputy Division Chief in the IMF’s Finance Department and IMF Mission Chief for the Commonwealth of Dominica, as well as other capacities beginning in 1995. Prior to joining the IMF, Dr Njoroge worked in Kenya as an economist at the Ministry of Finance and as a planning officer at the Ministry of Planning. His professional and research interests are in Macroeconomics, Economic Policy, International Finance, Development Economics, Econometrics and Monetary Policy.

Professor Stephany Griffith-Jones

Stephany Griffith-Jones is a Director of the Central Bank of Chile since May 2022.

She is an economist, with a PhD in Economics. She is currently Professor Emeritus at IDS, University of Sussex, Director of Financial Markets at the Economic Policy Dialogue Initiative at Columbia University, Research Associate at ODI London, Non-Resident Research Fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington DC, and Fellow Distinguished Award from the Climateworks Foundation of California.

She is a researcher and advisor on international and domestic finance, including capital flows and reform of the international and domestic financial architecture, from a development perspective; the role of national and regional development banks, especially in Europe and Latin America, with particular emphasis on their increasing involvement in financing low-carbon investments. She leads numerous major global research projects on international financial and macroeconomic issues, with networks of academics and high-level policymakers from both developed and developing countries.

A prolific author, she has written or edited more than twenty-five books and numerous articles in magazines and newspapers. A 2010 OUP book, co-edited with Joseph Stiglitz and José Antonio Ocampo "Time for a Visible Hand," deals primarily with financial regulation. She is an advisor to multiple international organizations, such as the European Commission, the European Parliament, the World Bank, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the IDB, the AfDB, and various UN agencies such as ECLAC, DESA, UNDP, and various governments and central banks, including the Government of England, Sweden, South Africa, and Brazil, and the central banks of Tanzania and the Czech Republic. She is also a member of the scientific councils of different think tanks.

Professor Ernest Aryeetey

Professor Ernest Aryeetey is the first Secretary-General of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA).  He oversees the activities of ARUA from his base at the University of Ghana, where until recently, he was the Vice-Chancellor. His main responsibility is to establish relations with key stakeholders and funders of research at African universities and to advocate for the importance of research-intensive universities for the continent. Also, he is a member of the Governing Council of the United Nations University, a think-thank of the United Nations systems. He is a former director of the Africa Growth Initiative of the Brookings Institution. Professor Aryeetey has held academic posts at SOAS University of London, Yale, Cornell and Swarthmore.

His research focuses on the economics of development with interest in institutions and their role in development, regional integration, economic reforms, financial systems in support of development and small enterprise development. Recognised for his work on informal finance and microfinance in Africa, Aryeetey has consulted for and advises a broad range of international agencies. He has published three books, seven edited volumes, and numerous journal articles. Among his publications are Financial Integration and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa and Economic Reforms in Ghana: the Miracle and the Mirage.

Dr Caleb Fundanga

Caleb Fundanga is the Executive Director of the Macro Economic and Financial Management Institute (MEFMI) for Eastern and Southern Africa.  Prior to joining MEFMI, he worked as Governor of the Bank of Zambia for the period 2002 to 2011. Among the many accolades bestowed upon him during this period were: Central Bank Governor of the Year for Africa and Global award by the Banker Magazine, a sister publication to the Financial Times of London in January 2007, Emerging Markets Magazine award of African Central Bank Governor of the Year 2007 which he received in Washington D.C. In September 2007, he was also awarded the African Central Bank Governor of the Year 2008 by the Annual Meetings Daily of Nigeria

Dr Charles Lufumpa

Charles Lufumpa served as Chief Economist and Vice President at African Development Bank and served as its Director of Statistics and Director Office Of the Chief Economist.

Dr Bo Sjö

Bo Sjö is an Associate Professor of Financial Economics and Econometrics at the Department of Management and Engineering (IEI), Linköping University, Sweden. He holds a PhD in Economics from Gothenburg University where he also was appointed Docent in 2000.

His research interests are focused on finance and macroeconomics; inflation modelling and monetary policy in developing countries, central bank intervention, portfolio selection, remittances, and the pricing of commodities.   

Before joining Linköping University in 2010, he worked with the Swedish Agency for Development Evaluation (SADEV), Griffith University, and Gothenburg University. He has consulted for African Development Bank (AfDB), Centre for International Development (CID) at Harvard University, Ministry of Planning and Development in Mozambique, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).  He has been a Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Finance, McGill University, and a Guest Lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of Ghana in cooperation with UNU-WIDER. He has served in the Swedish Research Council’s grant committee for Development Research.

He has completed funded projects and has ongoing projects with the NASDAQ-OMX Foundation and the Swedish Energy Agency. He has experience from teaching, course and programme development, and acting as an External Examiner at all levels, from the undergraduate to the doctorial level, including supervision of PhD students.

He has conducted international workshops in econometric time series modelling, attended various international seminars and conferences. He has publications in well-renowned journals such as Journal of Economic Surveys, The World Economy, Journal of Financial Markets Institutions and Money, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Multinational Financial Markets, Economic Modelling, and Studies in Non-linear Dynamics and Econometrics.

Professor Yongmiao Hong

Yongmiao Hong is currently a Guan Zhaozhi Chief Research Fellow of Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science at Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Dean and Special-term Professor of School of Economics and Management at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Ernest S. Liu Professor of Economics and International Studies Emeritus at Cornell University. He is a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Fellow of International Association of Applied Econometrics, and a Senior Fellow of Rimini Center for Economic Analysis. He also serves as an Independent Non-executive Director of China Everbright Bank. He was the President of Chinese Economists Society in North America from 2009 to 2010, and an Independent Non-executive Director of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China from 2012 to 2019.

Professor Hong's research interests include econometric theory, time series econometrics, financial econometrics, statistics and Chinese economy. He has published over 70 refereed papers in mainstream economic, financial and statistical journals such as Annals of Statistics, Biometrika, Econometric Theory, Econometrica, International Economic Review, Journal of American Statistical Association, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Royal Statistical Society (Series B), Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Review of Financial Studies. His most recent book is Foundations of Modern Econometrics: A Unified Approach.

Professor Eric Girardin

Eric Girardin is Professor of Economics at Aix-Marseille University, France. His research, focused on macroeconomic, monetary and financial issues in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and East Asia, has been published in numerous journals including the Journal of Development Economics, China Economic Review, and Energy Journal. He was one of the longest-serving members of ADBI’s Advisory Council (2004-2012) and has held visiting positions at the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), Asia-Pacific; the Hong Kong Institute of Monetary Research (HKIMR); the Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT), the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing; the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) Graduate School, Beijing; and Fudan University, Shanghai.

Professor Eric Girardin studied both at Paris-Panthéon-Sorbonne and Cambridge Universities. He supervised a dozen Ph. D. students on China’s economy and financial system. His 80 publications include more than 20 journal articles on China’s stock, real estate and foreign exchange markets. He wrote a monograph on Banking Sector Reform and Credit Control in China, OECD, in 1997, and co-wrote with Zhenya Liu a book, Demystifying China’s Stock Market: The Hidden Logic Behind the Puzzles (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). He coordinated an EU-Marie Curie research contract on China’s Electricity Industry.