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Adrian Blundell-Wignall

Adrian Blundell-Wignall
Deputy Director, Financial and Enterprise Affairs, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)


Deputy Director for Financial and Enterprise Affairs (DAF) at the OECD; effective from 14th February 2007; Chairman and portfolio manager for The Anika Foundation

 

Nationality

Australian

 

Senior Positions

 2002

 Citigroup (Australia, Ltd) director, head of Equity Strategy Research.

 2000

 Executive vice-president, head of Asset Allocation, BT Funds Management.

 1993

 Head of Derivative Overlays and Levered Products at Bankers Trust Funds Management, building  a  new $4 billion business.

 1991

 Head of the Research Department at the Reserve Bank of Australia: directing a department and  participating in monetary policy discussions at the internal pre-Board meetings.

 

Early Career

Economist positions in: the OECD Economics Department, the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Economic Planning Advisory Council of Australia.

 

Education

1st class Honours degree and PhD in economics from Cambridge University, UK.

 

Publications

Extensive publications on financial markets and monetary policy in learned journals and books, as well as broker analyst studies and reports.

 

Most Important Achievement

Founder and Chairman of The Anika Foundation, a rapidly growing and high-profile charity which provides education research scholarships in the area of adolescent mental health, depression awareness and suicide.