Adrian Blundell-Wignall

Adrian Blundell-Wignall
Deputy Director, Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD

 

Dr. Adrian Blundell-Wignall is the Special Advisor to the Secretary-General on Financial Markets and Deputy Director in the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs (DAF) at the OECD, effective from 14 February 2007.

 

He is founder and chairman of a charitable foundation (The Anika Foundation) that raises and invests an endowment fund to provide scholarships in a critical area of healthcare.

 

Mr. Blundell-Wignall is an Australian citizen. He has a 1st class Honours degree and PhD in Economics from Cambridge University, UK.

 

He is the author of extensive publications on financial markets and monetary policy in learned journals and books, as well as broker analyst studies and reports (Read more about his work).

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 in his career he held economist positions in: the OECD Economics Department, the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Economic Planning Advisory Council of Australia.