ABOUT THE AUTHOR - Avinash persaud

 Avinash Persaud is the author of the Supercharging the Energy Transition paper and a principal architect of the Bridgetown initiative. 

Avinash Persaud’s career spans finance, public policy and academia. He was a former senior executive at GAM London, State Street, J. P. Morgan and UBS and routinely ranked in the top three in the world of analysts in foreign exchange markets.

He is Special Envoy to the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley, on Climate Finance. Previously, Chairman of the CARICOM Commission on the Economy, the Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform, and the UN Commission on Financial Reform regulatory sub-committee. He was a Member of the UK Treasury’s Audit and Risk Committee and the Pew Task Force to the US Senate Banking Committee, as well as a Distinguished Advisor Financial Sector Law Reform Commission of India. 

Avinash is an Emeritus Professor at Gresham College and an advisor to Governments on financial policy. He was a London School of Economics Governor, 2010 President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (Section F) and elected Trustee of the Global Association of Risk Professionals and the Royal Economics Society. He has been a Visiting Scholar and Visiting Researcher at the IMF and ECB, won the Jacques de Larosiere Award in Global Finance from the Institute of International Finance and was voted one of the top three public intellectuals in the world on the 2008-2009 financial crisis by a panel for Prospect Magazine.