WILLIAMSON, John

WILLIAMSON, John. British, b. 1937. Genres: Economics. Career: Employed by Department of the Scientific Adviser to the Air Ministry, London, England, 1959-60; Princeton University, NJ, instructor, 1962-63; University of York, Heslington, England, lecturer to reader, 1963-68; Her Majesty's Treasury, economic consultant, 1968-70; University of Warwick, Coventry, England, professor, 1970-77; Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica, Rio de Janeiro, senior special analyst, 1977; Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, professor, 1978-81; Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC, senior fellow, 1981-; World Bank, South Asia Region, chief economist, 1996-99. Visiting professor at colleges and universities worldwide. Publications: The Crawling Peg, 1965; The Failure of World Monetary Reform, 1971-74, 1977; The Lending Policies of the International Monetary Fund, 1982; The Open Economy and the World Economy, 1983; The Exchange Rate System, 1983, rev. ed., 1985; (with D. Lessard) Financial Intermediation beyond the Debt Crisis, 1985; Political Economy and International Money: Selected Essays, 1987; (with B. Balassa) Adjusting to Success, 1987, rev. ed., 1990; (with M.H. Miller) Targets and Indicators, 1987; (with Lessard) Capital Flight, 1987; Voluntary Approaches to Debt Relief, 1988, rev. ed., 1989; The Progress of Policy Reform in Latin America, 1990; (with Milner) The World Economy, 1991; What Role for Currency Boards?, 1995; The Crawling Band as an Exchange Rate Regime, 1996; (with M. Mahar) A Survey of Financial Liberalization, 1998; Exchange Rate Regimes for Emerging Markets, 2000; (with N. Birdsall) Delivering on Debt Relief: From IMF Gold to a New Aid Architecture, 2002. EDITOR: IMF Conditionality, 1983; (with Lessard) Capital Flight and Third World Debt, 1987; Latin American Adjustment, 1990; The Political Economy of Policy Reform, 1994; Estimating Equilibrium Exchange Rates, 1994. Contributor to books and economic journals. Address: Institute for International Economics, 11 Dupont Circle NW, Washington, DC 20036, U.S.A. Online address: jwilliamson@iie.com